A Quote by Judith Ellen Foster

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Judith Ellen Foster

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Judith Ellen Foster
American - Activist
1840 - 1910

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

Josh Radnor

Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

Audrey Niffenegger

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Graham Greene

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

Norman Mailer

Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

Miriam Schapiro

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.

Graham Greene

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.

William H. McRaven

In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

Berthe Morisot

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Matteo Renzi

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

David Brooks

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

Mason Cooley

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack Obama

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