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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.
Gregor Strasser

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
Lee Greenwood

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.
Bill Richardson

Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Cat Stevens

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
James Keller

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
Lucy Stone

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Larry Harvey

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Leonard Maltin

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

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
Roscoe Conkling

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
George Byron