Sentiments Quotes - Page 17

• We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart.

  Muriel Wace

  Country, Heart, Animal

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• That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members. Such a sentiment, which had rendered the legions of the republic almost invincible, could make but a very feeble impression on the mercenary servants of a despotic prince; and it became necessary to supply that defect by other motives, of a different, but not less forcible nature; honour and religion.

  Edward Gibbon

  Strong, Government, History

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Ornaments, Action, Disgrace

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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• Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Skeletons, Hands

  Robert Aris Willmott (1858). “Summer Time in the Country”, p.44

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• Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Healthy, Brain

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.

  Elinor Glyn

  Strong, Mean, Men

  Elinor Glyn (2013). “The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection”, p.365, eBookIt.com

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• To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors from the unworthy is simply to admit that our selfishness is superior to our pride. Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful for them. The proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Gratitude, Grateful, Pride

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• Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.

  David Hume

  Writing, Natural, Fine

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.695, Delphi Classics

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• Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

  Kenneth Grahame

  White, Snow, World

  Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Reluctant Dragon”, p.2, Booklassic

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• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Two, Fiction

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• What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.

  William Matthews

  Song, Reflection, Ideas

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• it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

  Harriet Martineau

  Country, Republic, Purity

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• There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

  Renata Adler

  Real, Differences, Feelings

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.97, New York Review of Books

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• I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

  Storm Jameson

  Children, Silly, Use

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• How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Men, Selfishness

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Flower, Expression, Taste

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• We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Shapes, Want

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• I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Gun, Thinking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among prizes, it is surely his [Bob Dylan] due.

  David Bennun

  Men, Gold, Bob

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Religious, Vocabulary, Ideas

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mistake, Benefits, Pay

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Strong, Believe, Escaping

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• Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.

  Allen Drury

  Selfish, Ambition, Science

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