Excessive Emotion Quotes

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

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

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.

I overdramatize.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

I'm sentimental to a fault.

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well?