False Sentiment Quotes

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of hawthorns in blossom, and I have been led to believe, and to make someone else believe, in a renewal of affection, by what was no more than an inclination to travel.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.