Sentimental Quotes - Page 18

• A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

  Charles Ferguson

  People, Justice, Diversity

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• What is a home without children? Quiet.

  Henny Youngman

  Baby, Children, Silly

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have no unrestrained instincts left. We are cowardly and sentimental. We are bearing the burden of a humiliating past, and have in our blood the dull recollection of serfdom and servility. But my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at these young men and boys! What material! With them, I can make a new world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Boys, Past, Men

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Lust

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Children, Mean

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• When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Pain, Memories

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.26, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I think my movies aren't sentimental. I think my movies are funny and sad and realistic. Not realistic in the sense that they're documentaries, but realistic in the sense that they're not idealistic, they're not optimistic, not pessimistic, and not propagandistic. They're an analysis of a situation. I call it as I see it, so to speak.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Analysis

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Spring, Autumn, Self

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Exercise, Compassion, Feel Good

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• But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

  Cornel West

  Differences, Optimism, Black

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• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

  George Bernard Shaw

  Music, Art, Real

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• Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

  Stefan Zweig

  Gratitude, Kings, Age

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• Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Letting Go, Daughter, Nuts

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• Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

  Angela Carter

  Kissing, Blood, Degrees

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• 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

  Louis MacNeice

  Giving, Water, World

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.94, Faber & Faber

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• That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.

  Alfred Doblin

  Kings, Glasses, Ice

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• Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

  Roland Barthes

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

  Maya Angelou

  Fall, Names, Voice

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• I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body. I only know it isn't mine.

  Elvis Costello

  Valentine, Body, Causes

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• A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

  Mason Cooley

  Surprise, Aphorism, Sonnet

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• The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Sentimentality

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• How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Hypocrisy, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
  languid spleen,
  An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
  not-too-French French bean!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Fashion, Plato, Passion

  'Patience' (1881) act 1

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• Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Book, Heart

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