Sentiments Quotes - Page 22

• The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Foundation, Culture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honor, Half, Sparks

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baby, Sex, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.16, 谷月社

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• We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart.

  Muriel Wace

  Country, Heart, Animal

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, People, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

  William Dean Howells

  Growing, Slavery, Wrecks

  William Dean Howells (1872). “Their Wedding Journey”, p.154

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• The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Philosophy, Spring, Feet

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

  Leslie Jamison

  Suspects, Ifs

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• There are certain topicks which are never exhausted. Of some images and sentiments the mind of man may be said to be enamoured; it meets them, however often they occur, with the same ardour which a lover feels at the sight of his mistress, and parts from them with the same regret when they can no longer be enjoyed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.100

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• Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

  Madame de Stael

  Depth, Attention, Originality

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

  J. D. Salinger

  Memories, Lying, People

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  James Anthony Froude

  Writing, Adventure, Mean

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.2

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• Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

  Tania James

  Song, Sometimes

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• Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Service Culture, Wish

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• A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

  Bill Vaughan

  Character, Men, Judging

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• I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• Tout notre raisonnement se re  duit a'   ce  der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Feelings, Reasoning

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• There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Stars, Children

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• How few friends would remain friends if each could see the sentiments of the other in their entirety.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Few Friends, Ifs, Entirety

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• We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Shapes, Want

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• I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Gun, Thinking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Ease

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.122

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