Quotes on Sentimental

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

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

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Children make you want to start life over.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.