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People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers read more
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.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.