Mawkish Quotes

#1. The wall of silence that had instantaneously sprung between us was strong, deafening. I could not concentrate, having a sudden surge of emotions about all relationships being mawkish and pointless.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#2. A willingness to be pleased requires modesty and even innocence
easy to deride as mawkish and sentimental.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

John Keats

#4. Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize).

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Gabriel Byrne

#7. This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

Harriet Martineau

#8. The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

Vladimir Nabokov

#10. I always love to support my friends and how they choose to express themselves creatively.

Rayvon Owen

#11. Just be the strong woman you are, like me. If the guys can't handle us, it's their problem.

Amanda Sun

#12. I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. The coach should keep out of the way ... He is an important figure, of course, but is more likely to lose a match than win it. Matches are won by players.

Romario

#14. ... what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago, part invention.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Josh Billings

#16. To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.

Marilyn Monroe