Quotes Tagged With :sentimentality

One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality....

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.....

Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly....

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change....

Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that....

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only....

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would....

Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say....

It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play....

A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy'....