Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. - Norman Mailer
THe soul of most conservatism is sentimentality, and sentimentality, and sentimentality preserves the good and the bad with indiscriminate relish.
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! - Sheri S. Tepper
Sentimentality towards the undeserving is as dangerous as agreeing to putting one foot in the grave. - K.A. Hosein
As the bell rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience. Sometimes he was racked by sorrow and regret. Even when the sentimentality of the announcers repelled him, the tolling of the bells echoed in his heart. - Yasanuri Kawabata