Quotes on Admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Author: Joseph Addison

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Author: Minna Antrim

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Author: Jane Austen

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Author: Marcus Cicero

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Author: Jean Cocteau

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Author: Charles Colton

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Author: Samuel Daniel

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Author: Thomas Day

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Author: William Hazlitt

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Author: Arthur Helps

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Author: Daniel Hill

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Author: Ann Landers

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Author: Ann Landers

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

Author: Marie Louise

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

Author: Mercedes McCambridge

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Author: Rod McKuen

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

Author: Giovanni Mirandola

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Author: John Polkinghorne

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

Author: Lisa Presley

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Author: Joseph Priestley

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.

Author: Mitt Romney

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Author: Joseph Rutherford

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Author: George Sand

I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.

Author: Julia Tyler