An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON SENTIMENTS
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
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 (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Sentimentality -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene (1904-1991, British novelist)
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895, British biologist, educator)
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Alphonse De Lamartine (1790-1869, French poet, statesman, historian)
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, American President (16th))
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor)
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965, British novelist, playwright)
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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