Quotes of Sentimental - somelinesforyou

“ I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. ”

- John Keats

“ I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't! ”

- Lee Ryan

“ Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home. ”

- Carol Nelson

“ Cowboys weren't allowed to kiss girls in pictures, so one time I gave Dale a little peck on the forehead and we got a ton of letters to leave that mushy stuff out,... So I had to kiss Trigger instead. ”

- Roy Rogers

“ Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm a romantic — a sentimental person thinks things will last — a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t. ”

- Unknown

“ It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ If you want to be loved, be lovable. ”

- Ovid

“ This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive! ”

- Don Marquis

“ It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back. ”

- Bill Vaughn

“ It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past. ”

- Robert Brault

“ So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. ”

- Quran

“ Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely. ”

- Unknown

“ The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. ”

- Antoine Bret

“ It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ”

- Unknown

“ It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ”

- Juan Ramón Jiménez

“ Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you.". ”

- Erich Fromm

“ I'm very romantic. ”

- Enrique Iglesias

“ Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. ”

- Gabriel Byrne

“ It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy. ”

- Lorne Michaels

“ We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good. ”

- Cornel West

“ I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed. ”

- Rick Moranis

“ We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. ”

- Gamal Abdel Nasser

“ The job of the poet is to render the world — to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ”

- Mark Van Doren

“ The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretense but an idea. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ If your heart is in the right place, it affords you appropriate opportunity to do things for others, to express your good will, to let yourself go sentimentally, philanthropically. ”

- B.C. Forbes

“ I'm a romantic — a sentimental person thinks things will last — a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. ”

- Helen Merrell Lynd
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