Sentimentalität / Sentimentality Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Sentimentalität / Sentimentality:

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

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

Mitch Albom

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Marc Webb

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

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

Graham Greene

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

Norman Mailer

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Lionel Blue

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

Garth Ennis

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

Alice Hamilton

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

John Barton

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.

Mandy Moore

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

August Wilson

I know very well that to admit to loving Bright Eyes is to admit to having an overgrown brain region devoted to self-pity, sentimentality, regret, and a handful of other not very appealing emotional states.

Ben Dolnick

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Robert Frank

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Lasse Hallstrom

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Maya Angelou

Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.

Howard Jacobson

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

E. M. Forster

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

Toots Thielemans

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

Tony Gilroy

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Simon Beaufoy

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.'

Alain de Botton

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

Josh Radnor

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

W. Kamau Bell

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

Pete Hamill

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'

Hugh Grant

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.

Jon Landau