“Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist”
W. R. Inge
“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist”
Thomas Carlyle
“A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.”
Oscar Wilde
“Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.”
Charlie Chaplin
“The shadow of victory is disillusion”
Winston Churchill
“We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.”
Kenneth Clark
