A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
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.
Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense. . . I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality. . . Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.
Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well. . . . Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.