Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

I'm sentimental to a fault.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.

This statement of fact is an eloquent comment on the apathy with which many people regard the mental and physical health of the rising generation…A woman will lavish love and care, and attention on her pet cat or ‘prize’ poodle, and yet draw her skirts aside from the starving children in the gutter. The mew of the cat and the howl of the dog, to say nothing of the squeal of the ‘tortured rabbit’- that figment of anti-vivisectionist imagination- are far more potent to loosen the purse-strings of the sentimentalists than the wail of children.

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual than for a man to impute his actions to honorable motives when it is nearly demonstrable that they flowed from some corrupt and contemptible force.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

I sent out a tweet, 'Dancing with the Stars' should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn't make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody's going to war.

Sentimental is not bad, but it's probably the most likely to go awry. It's the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just don't want it to be maudlin.

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).

Applause is the beginning of abuse