Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading
of excessive and spurious emotion,
is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
-James Baldwin
Sentimentality is intellectualized emotion;
emotion precipitated, as it were,
in pretty crystals by the fancy.
-James Russell Lowell
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got.
-David Herbert Lawrence
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
-James Joyce
Sentimentality is failure of feeling.
-Wallace Stevens
Sentimentality - that's what we call
the sentiment we don't share.
-Graham Greene
