Sentiments Quotes

• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Life, Lying

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• Be tolerant. Behold the unity of all faiths, cults, creeds and religions. Respect the views, opinions and sentiments of all.

  Sivananda

  Respect, Views, Unity

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Decision, Political, Mold

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• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

  George Sand

  Poetry, Noble, Delight

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20

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• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Uplifting, Taken

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sentimental, Mortals, Sentimentality

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

  Louis Pasteur

  Respect, Teacher, Children

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• Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Memories, Smell, Imagination

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.75, Reprint Services Corporation

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• All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  1867 'Rousseau and the Sentimentalists', in the North American Review, Jul.

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• Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Doe, Opinion, Quebec

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• It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Noble, Literature

  Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

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• The revolution is now just a sentiment.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Revolution

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• The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, People, Religion

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Ashes, Mama, Sides

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• Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Mad, Pity

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Expression, Description

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2580, Delphi Classics

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• It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Literature, Action

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.200, Random House

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• Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

  Daniel De Leon

  Heart, Ideas, Progress

  "Patriotism and Poverty". "The Daily People" Newspaper, July 26, 1900.

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• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Way, Sentimental, Wrong Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.

  Radha Mitchell

  Christian, Revenge, Nice

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• Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Imagination

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• The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Senior, Class, Desire

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2010). “Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review (Large Print 16pt)”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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