Logo
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments ple

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists–talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Emotions
category

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. – Thomas Henry Huxley

Category:
Emotions

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. – G. K. Chesterton

Category:
Emotions

Melancholic madness strapped to your chest and you have no way of releasing the fear. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

Category:
Emotions

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. – Elizabeth Bowen

Category:
Emotions

Random Quotes

I think I could fall madly in bed with you. – Author Unknown

Category:
Sex

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

Category:
Nature
[P]atriotism… is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. – Adlai Stevenson

Category:
USA Patriotic

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Category:
Silence