Quotes About Sentimentalists

They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.

For all good soldiers are sentimentalists - all good soldiers of that type. Their profession, for one thing, is full of big words, courage, loyalty, honour, constancy.

A few were men and women of quality. But many were losers: a motley collection of self-aggrandizing utopians and mushy-headed sentimentalists, adrift in the drama of their lives.

As Theodore Roosevelt observed in his safari diary, Death by cold, death by starvation - these are the normal endings of the stately and beautiful creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness. The problem with this outlook is that is obscures our own singular capacity to make choices, for good or evil.... it sees in nature's violence an invitation to compound nature's violence.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

On all ordinary occasions Magdalen's appetite would have terrified those feeble sentimentalists, who affect to ignore the all-important influence which female feeding exerts in the production of female beauty.

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists – all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.