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

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

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

-Pissarro, Camille
  Letter to his son Lucien.

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

-Raban,Jonathan
  Hunting Mister Heartbreak, ch.2.