Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

I am a sentimental guy, and occasionally, that lump in my throat when I speak has stopped my tongue from working.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I get very sentimental, I get very nostalgic, and when I live in a place, I instantly put down way too many roots.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

I think of myself as a softy. I think the 87th Precinct novels are very sentimental, and the cops are idealistic guys.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply.

I'm so in love with Chanel's perfume bottles. I grew up seeing my mom use Chanel No. 5, so it's quite sentimental to me.

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

I love Christmas. I'm really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time.

The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

I'm someone who is very sentimental and nostalgic and attached to the homes I lived in, and I think moving is a traumatic experience.

There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

I wanted to do music that was a little more sentimental, emotional, and serene - completely different from the party music I was doing.

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