(317 quotes found)
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.”
William James
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”
William S. Burroughs
“Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.”
Marquis De Sade
“The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.”
Frank Herbert
“Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance”
Lord Chesterfield
“Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.”
Michael Lewis
“I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.”
Reinhold Niebuhr
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