No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.
I am an appalling softie. But somehow, somewhere along the line, I've learnt how to hide it.
I'm a very sentimental, emotional person.
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.
For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.
I love life, I love people and I love sharing, so I would say that I'm romantic.
