Quotes about Sentiments

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence.

The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.

We would have a poor idea of marriage and of human affection if we were to think that love and joy come to an end when faced with such difficulties. It is precisely then that our true sentiments come to the surface. Then the tenderness of a person's gift of himself takes root and shows itself in a true and profound affection that is stronger than death.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

the human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

is probable that, like the illustrious author of the drama, all were unconscious of any incongruity between their sentiments and actions.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.