Quotes by Sentimental The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me. Gary Clark, Jr. sentimental band guy I'm not a sentimental guy. Gene Hackman sentimental guy If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy. George Saunders sentimental challenges thinking If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I bring in this perverse henchman. George Saunders henchmen tendencies sentimental Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. Gertrude Stein sentimental parent long It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. Gilbert K. Chesterton sentimental healthy jam Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. Graham Greene sentimental communication relationship Cruel men cry easily at the cinema. Graham Greene sentimental cinema men I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it. Grimes sentimental persons I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. Gus Van Sant sentimental quality thinking The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. George Bernard Shaw sentimental real noise I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental. Gus Van Sant sentimental mean thinking Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. Helen Lynd sentimental expression desire The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous. Henry Van Dyke sentimental care simple You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it. Holly Near hogwash sentimental people A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders. Honore de Balzac sentimental deceit husband But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. Honore de Balzac sentimental cutting positive A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. Irving Babbitt sentimental movement sides According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. Irving Babbitt sentimental ethics virtue Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists. Jack Butler Yeats sentimental selfish heart «12345678»
