Sentimental Quotes

A little too sentimental, on purpose.

Sentimentality gets described here as a trait worth noticing in other people — a whole nationality called broadly sentimental, an aunt who was, by her own family's telling, sentimental about everyone in it.


One line pushes back entirely, calling intellectuals too sentimental for its speaker's taste, a reminder the word can be praise or a mild insult. See Memory quotes for more on what sentiment holds onto.