I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
Leonard Maltin

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Ugo Betti

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
Ernest Renan

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.
Josiah Warren

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.
Sarah McLachlan

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
William Hamilton Maxwell

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
John Surtees

Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.
Judith Ellen Foster

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
Samuel Prout

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene