Sentimental Quotes
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”
Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.30, The Floating Press
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934)
William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.23, Westminster John Knox Press
Jean Cocteau (1926). “A call to order: written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including Cock and harlequin, Professional secrets, and other critical essays”, Haskell House Pub Ltd
William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Cannibals and Christians (1966) p. 51
Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”