Quotes about Sentimental
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about
- Oscar Wilde
He is, and is pleased to let everybody know it, a winner-take-all businessman—the worst nightmare of sentimental, lefty intellectuals, which is exactly what so many of the Bancrofts have become.
- Michael Wolff
The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.
- Oswald Chambers
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
- William Saroyan
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
- Washington Irving
It's all very true! It's a weakness to be so affectionate, but I can't help it.
- Charles Dickens
I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.
- Isabel Allende
Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!
- Herman Melville
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.
- Henri Nouwen
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
- Frank Herbert