Sentiment Quotes
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Every person has two educations--one which be receives from others, and one more important, which he gives himself. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment. (Quote by - Judith Ellen Foster)
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up. (Quote by - Barbara Kruger)
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. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions. (Quote by - William Hamilton Maxwell)
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. (Quote by - John Galsworthy)
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. (Quote by - Voltaire)
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
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. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. (Quote by - Roberta Williams)
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. (Quote by - Sallust)
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)
Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters. (Quote by - Kenzaburo Oe)
Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fancy. (Quote by - Dorothee DeLuzy)
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. (Quote by - Samuel Prout)
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. (Quote by - Josiah Warren)
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. (Quote by - Sarah McLachlan)
All sentiment is sight; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right. (Quote by - David Hume)
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. (Quote by - Graham Greene)
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. (Quote by - Alphonse De Lamartine)
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. (Quote by - Ernest Renan)
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. (Quote by - John Henry Newman)
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. (Quote by - Leland Stanford)
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. (Quote by - C J Jung)
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. (Quote by - George Mason)
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. (Quote by - Confucius)
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it. (Quote by - Leonard Maltin)
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. (Quote by - Gamal Abdel Nasser)
Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy, rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far-reaching desires, which the sufferer cherishes as sacred treasures. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd)
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. (Quote by - Alfred Day Hershey)
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. (Quote by - Wilfrid Laurier)
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. (Quote by - Giuseppe Mazzini)
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. (Quote by - John Desmond Bernal)
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. (Quote by - David Hume)
A woman should not paint sentiment till she has ceased to inspire it. (Quote by - Lady Marguerite Blessington)
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
One can impose silence on sentiment, but one cannot give it limits. (Quote by - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker)
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. (Quote by - Alfred Day Hershey)
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live. (Quote by - William Ellery Channing)
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
For me sport was a religion with religious sentiment. (Quote by - Pierre de Coubertin)
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? (Quote by - James Thomson)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. (Quote by - Ugo Betti)
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
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. (Quote by - John Surtees)
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
