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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
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.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.