Quotes About Sentiments

Would you rather tear up your own expressions of love, or the ones you had received?

Ya me lo dirá usted. Gustave desconfiaba de los sentimientos; le tenía miedo al amor; y elevó su neurosis a la categoría de credo artístico. La vanidad de Gustave no era únicamente literaria

She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.

We call them feelings because we feel them.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Love is a natural feeling, hatred is an acquired one.

Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?

But then my wife is subject to failures of the imagination. I have tried to carry her but her sentiments are too readily aroused. Her eyes stay at the skin. Only her heart, only her tenderest feelings, go in. I, on the other hand, cut surgically by all outward growths, all manifestations, merely, of disease and reach the ill within.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being marked with the proper character of blame and disapprobation, this must be allowed to disfigure the poem, and to be a real deformity. I cannot, nor is it proper I should, enter into such sentiments; and however I may excuse the poet, on account of the manners of age, I can never relish the composition.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.