Sentimentality quotes

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◆ Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being 'drawn toward.' Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

- Carter Heyward100

◆ Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

- Norman Mailer99

◆ Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

- David Herbert Lawrence99

◆ The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

- Mark Van Doren99

◆ The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

- Thomas Huxley99

◆ I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

- Lasse Hallstrom99

◆ In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

- William S Burroughs99

◆ I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

- Lionel Blue99

◆ I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

- Robert Frank99

◆ I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

- F Scott Fitzgerald99

◆ There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

- Max Beckmann99

◆ I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

- Max Beckmann99

◆ The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

- Joe Barton99

◆ Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

- Leonora Carrington99

◆ Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

- Jean Cocteau99