Quotes About Sentiment

My mother was pulling my leg on that one. I have collected so much gift-wrapped trash over the years from people who copped out and hurriedly bought a little plastic cheapie to give under the protective flag of good thoughts. I tell you, it is the gift that counts. Or rather, people who think good thoughts give good gifts. It ought to be a rule—the Brass Rule of Gift Exchange.

It didn't matter, though, how weakly sentimental the catalyst had been, only that he'd been receptive to it.

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

I've also been known to cry during MasterCard commercials.

As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.

If I had a heart

Old-fashioned names are the best and sweetest in my opinion.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

I have so much of you in my heart.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

It's hard not to be romantic about baseball

If you took every pop song to heart, you'd be a bleeding romantic with a crushed heart every five minutes.

We all have romantic nature of one kind or another buried somewhere in our hearts.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I grew up with the dread of seeing piles of old newspapers collect dust and used matches put back into matchboxes. But more than that, I dreaded the memories that were not mine, yet were so adamant to be heard and remembered as the only memories that mattered.

To those who insist that nothing is equivalent to personal experience, We shall renew our argument, begging them to meditate on the preceding lines, drawing their attention to the fact that a just opinion can only be formed when personal sentiment is excluded from the discussion.