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Quotes About Sentiments

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
~ Leland Stanford
It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.
~ Jane Austen
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
~ Jane Austen
I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.
~ Jane Austen
Will you tell me how long you have loved him? It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.
~ Jane Austen
His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable.
~ Jane Austen
Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world that he can spare from me.
~ Jane Austen
sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning
~ Jane Austen
I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.
~ Jane Austen
Now, how were his sentiments to be read? Was this like wishing to avoid her? And the next moment she was hating herself for the folly which asked the question.
~ Jane Austen
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling.
~ Jane Austen
but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy.
~ Jane Austen
Though she liked him for his attentions, and thought them all, whether in friendship, admiration, or playfulness, extremely judicious, they were not winning back her heart.
~ Jane Austen
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you - Mr. Darcy
~ Jane Austen
I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.
~ Pablo Picasso
Marla cursed--though her profanities we less destructive than Rondeau's, they were more heartfelt.
~ Tim Pratt
Demoralized by their inability to change their station in life, they must accept that the meaning of politics lies not in institutional reform but in daily emotion. They must stop thinking about a better future for themselves, their friends, and their families, and prefer the constant invocation of a proud past. At the top and throughout society, material inequality creates the experiences and the sentiments that can be transformed into a politics of eternity.
~ Timothy Snyder
Las emociones de las personas que se ha dejado de amar siempre tienen algo de ridículo.
~ Oscar Wilde
All Achilles's emotions seemed to be varying shades of anger.
~ Pat Barker
It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.
~ Patricia Crone
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
~ Eugene Kennedy
voice even and his expression neutral. He didn't want to declare his sentiments until he had heard Harrison out. 'When he came to power, President Taffari sent for this woman. She was working in the forest at the time. He explained to her his plans for the advancement and development
~ Wilbur Smith
psychologist analyzed 558 emotion words—every one that he could find in the English language—and found that 62 percent of them were negative versus 38 percent positive.
~ Chip Heath