The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

— Carlyle, Thomas

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.

— Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

— Greene, Graham

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

— Huxley, Thomas H.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Lamartine, Alphonse De

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

— Lincoln, Abraham

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

— Lowell, James Russell

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

— Maugham, W. Somerset

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

— Wilde, Oscar