48 Quotes About Sentimentality

Sentimentality, especially in the guise of idealism, not only breeds cynicism but also makes it the necessary foil sometimes.

Never underestimate the corrective lens that is sentimentality.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.

If your teachers suggest that your poems are sentimental, that is only half of it. Your poems probably need to be even more sentimental. Don’t be less of a flower, but could you be more of a stone at the same time?

Sentiment isn't a bad thing.

I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted ness of most people-but I knew there were people in the world who remained friends, for life, with bunk mates from sleepaway camp, and this was that group of people.

Mr. and Mrs. Hankshaw were summoned from the waiting room where Saturday Evening Post fantasies had clouded their instinctive parental concern the way that Norman Rockwell's sentimental ideas cloud the purity of a blank canvas.

For him, that was an apology on bended knee. Anything more than he just managed, and he'll overload his sentimentality quota."Richard Dalrymple gasped. "Never tell me he still has the sentimentality quota."Miranda's look of surprise mirrored his. "Never tell me that the sentimentality quota truly exists.

Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.