Sentimental Quotes - Page 7

• After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Love, Wedding, Gowns

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.28

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• One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour.

  M. M. Musselman

  Love, Wedding, Sex

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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.

  Sarah Waters

  Cutting, Hair, Wings

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• Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Pain, Going Away, Doe

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.31, Vintage

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• If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Curiosity, Stories

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• I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.

  William Holden

  Pain, Home, Kids

  "Fictional character: Max Schumacher". "Network", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

  Ava Gardner

  Book, Writing, Jewels

  Peter Evans, Ava Gardner (2014). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  Madame Roland

  Reading, Years, Envy

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• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

  Robert McNamara

  Love, Leadership, Broken Heart

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• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  People, Genuine, Ill

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Justice, Noble

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Law, Race, Community

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

  William Carlos Williams

  Machines, Made

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

  Nick Clegg

  Art, Dad, Emotional

  "Nick Clegg interview: A year in the eye of the storm". Interview With Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Disappointment, Grief, Believe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

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• If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mother, Father, Son

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.144

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• For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Love, Opposites, Phrases

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

  Ugo Betti

  Guilt, Kind, Shame

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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