Emotional Superficiality Quotes

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

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.