False Emotion Quotes

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

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

And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. What do you mean?” Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn’t about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.