To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O’Connor
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. Norman Mailer
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. Jane Jacobs
Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling. Mason Cooley
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. Leonora Carrington
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way. Somerset Maugham
Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality. Carl Jung
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. Thomas Carlyle
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. Dean Inge
Sentimentality is unearned emotion. James Joyce
Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share. Graham Greene
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Oscar Wilde