A Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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W. Somerset Maugham
British - Novelist
January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

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

Josh Radnor

It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way. It's the freedom that we Chinese people are not allowed that rubs me up the wrong way.

Jimmy Lai

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

I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

Tory Lanez

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

I don't want to be that guy that's either arrogant or rubs people the wrong way.

Jack Sock

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

John Bolton

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

Gene Weingarten

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

Bret Easton Ellis

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

John McEnroe

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Bob Dylan

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

Margaret Ayer Barnes

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.