Over Sentimentality Quotes

#1. Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Cecil Beaton

#3. Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

#4. In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ridley Scott

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

Norman Mailer

#6. Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

E. M. Forster

#7. Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

Miranda Raison

#8. Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.

Jane Jacobs

#9. It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.

Peter Alliss

#10. He taught me not to dwell or attach myself to things from the past that were no longer useful, and that sentimentality was for people who did not want to move forward in this world.

Gemma Liviero

#11. India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Simon Beaufoy

#12. Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Hermann Hesse

#13. The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Garth Ennis

#14. I'm not sentimental
I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last
the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Woodrow Wilson

#16. Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Robert Barron

#17. I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.

Alexander Payne

#18. Lady Maccon wondered if she had ever been so foolish over Lord Maccon. Then she recalled that her affection generally took the form of threats and verbal barbs. She gave herself a pat on the back for avoiding sentimentality.

Gail Carriger

#19. I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

Charles Kuralt

#20. This is not mere sentimentality. The triumph of twentieth-century metropolitan life is, in a real sense, the triumph of one image over the other: the dark ritual of deadly epidemics replaced by the convivial exchanges of strangers from different backgrounds sharing ideas on the sidewalk.

Steven Johnson

#21. The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

George Orwell

#22. And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Toots Thielemans

#23. He managed to create an atmosphere of sticky sentimentality that disgusted me.

Elizabeth Peters

#24. Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Melina Marchetta

#26. Family is everything!" he always said when he went overboard with sentimentality. "If you don't have family, what do you have?

Sonal Panse

#27. Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

Mason Cooley

#28. The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Janet Fitch

#29. 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

#30. I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

Anthony Hopkins

#31. Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

Vance Havner

#32. I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Ellen Glasgow

#33. The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

Carl Jung

#34. Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

#35. They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

Sean O'Grady

#36. Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Norman Maclean

#37. The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

Milan Kundera

#38. Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs

#39. 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

#40. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

Emma Donoghue