High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.
The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
No one can control his emotion of love for a woman. . . the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.
You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.
Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism. . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.
No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able to say from their very own experience: 'We have gone into his tabernacle, and have worshipped in the places where his feet have stood. '
I think the sentiment has not entirely shifted away from the belief that technology will continue to do well. But the believers are getting more and more worried about their beliefs.