Quotes About Sentiment

PHOTOGRAPHY is the best way, where you can SAVE your sweet PAST.

I was born with a romantic nature, and I'll carry it to my grave.

Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

...patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life.

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

In poetry, only emotion endures.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

The structure of a 'writing schedule' is only there as a frame. You provide the image, the emotion, and the sentiment in your own time.

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Sentiment is thrown back into private life, into personal relations, and

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed everyone is at a play. We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

Old Songs are more than tunes. They are little houses in which our hearts once lived. When we hear them we go visiting—we walk forgotten streets, we smile again at the skies of youth.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.