Quotes about Sentiment

“Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.”

“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.”

“Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.”

“Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.”

“The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.”

“He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.”

“A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

“Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.”

“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.”