Sentimentalist Quotes

There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed. - William James

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges. - Lillie Langtry

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. - Thomas Carlyle

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

It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists. - Curt Siodmak

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. - James Earl Jones

I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out. - Vanessa Paradis

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. - W R Inge

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