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Sentimental Quotes

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

"Fictional character: The Wizard of Oz". The Wizard of Oz, www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.30, The Floating Press

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

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

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274

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”