| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. |
| Abraham Lincoln | He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. |
| Alphonse De Lamartine | Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. |
| C J Jung | Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. |
| Graham Greene | Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. |
| Graham Greene | Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. |
| John Galsworthy | The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. |
| Rebecca West | People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. |
| Thomas Huxley | The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. |
| W Somerset Maugham | Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. |
| James Russell Lowell | Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. |
| James Russell Lowell | Sentiment is intellectualized emotion, emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. |
| Oscar Wilde | A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. |
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