Quotes About Sentiment

A diplomatic statement, Lena, is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

The curiosity of the book was that, as you held it, and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing, which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook, you stored it, or deleted it; you felt no sentiment or particular ownership.

The curiosity of the book was that,as you held it,and "read" it, you felt an intimate connection with it as with a living thing,which you did not feel with an eBook; as soon as you were finished with the eBook,you stored it,or deleted it;you felt no sentiment or particular ownership. You could not see it on a shelf or a table,you could not admire its design. In effect,it had been Deleted.

my father. "Oh, it's so quaint," she said. "Isn't it quaint

It was the last nostalgia: that heShould understand.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.

Once things have passed and become irretrievable, we tend to see them with a hazy, golden glow.

What they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story—it's how they felt.

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

The language, of course, is quaint and antiquated, so that the beauty of many of its golden phrases will scarcely be perceived at the present day, but it is impossible not to be charmed with the genuine sentiment, the delightful artlessness and urbanity, which prevail throughout it. The descriptions of Nature too, with which it is embellished, are given with a truth, a discrimination, and a freshness, worthy of the most cultivated periods of the art.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

an inner feeling called "Stimmung" by the germans and best translated as sentiment (it is to be regreted that this word, sentiment, which is meant to describe the poetical efforts of an artist living soul, has been misused and finally, ridiculed. Was there ever a great word that the masses did not try immediatly to cheapen and desecrate?) (...)

The photo is black and white, but the memory is in color.

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

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Pochi oggetti risvegliano quanto il libro il sentimento di assoluta proprietà.