sentimental quotes

I notice that I'm getting more sentimental as I get older; I feel I owe it to myself somehow.

- Angela Olive Carter
Quoted in  John Haffenden Novelists in Interview (1985).

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

- Camille Pissarro
  Letter to his son Lucien.

The mythical America†that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

-Jonathan Raban
  Hunting Mister Heartbreak, ch.2.