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

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

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

Sentimentality comes from an inability, for whatever reason, to look reality in the face.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.