It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby. " And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty. . . the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.