Quotes and Sayings about Sentimentality
"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
- John Barton
(Related: Feelings, Order, Sentimentality)
"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 Beckmann
(Related: Love, Hate, Nothing, Painting, Reason, Sentimentality)
"There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality."
- Max Beckmann
(Related: Hate, Nothing, Sentimentality)
"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 Blue
(Related: Fear, Losing, Sentimentality, Songs, Suffering, Timidity, Want, Weakness)
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Deep, Sadness, Sentimentality)
"Sentimentality is a form of fatigue."
- Leonora Carrington
(Related: Fatigue, Sentimentality)
"Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love."
- E. M. Forster
(Related: Love, Lust, Sentimentality, Struggle)
"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 Frank
(Related: Sentimentality, Want)
"Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share."
- Graham Greene
(Related: Sentiment, Sentimentality)
"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
- Lasse Hallstrom
(Related: Sentimentality, Trying)
"When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor."
- Alice Hamilton
(Related: Medical, Impression, American, Friends, Poor, Sentimentality, Silence, Socialism)
"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches."
- Jane Jacobs
(Related: Nature, Sentimentality)
"The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons."
- Michael Lewis
(Related: American, Baseball, Fathers, Sentimentality, Sons)
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
- Norman Mailer
(Related: Sentiment, Sentimentality)
"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Sentiment, Sentimentality, Wrong)
"In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love."
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
(Related: Love, Fear, Affection, Pride, Sentimentality)
"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."
- Toots Thielemans
(Related: Sentimentality)