Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
- Norman MailerI think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
- Lasse HallströmThe sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
- Michael LewisOn producing The Bucket List (2007): This is kind of a little minefield here. You want to get the tone right for it. This is a subject that you have to deal with comically. It`s still got to be funny. You want sentiment, not sentimentality. These are all the sidewalls you want to not fracture the picture on. Not that I don`t like an easy job.
- Rob ReinerI always say that I don`t want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn`t be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.
- Robert FrankThe poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
- Alicia DlugoshI believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
- Amanda MilburnThere is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
- Amanda MilburnInstead of a clear call for repentance we have been offered warms words of sentimentality for those who have shown no godly sorrow for their actions.
- Amy DrakeSentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
- Carl Gustav JungIn dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
- Arthur Ochs SulzbergerSentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way
- William Somerset Maugham