14 quotes about Admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

— Addison, Joseph

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

— Alt, Carol

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

— Bradley, Francis H.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

— Brooke, Rupert

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

— Cooley, Charles Horton

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

— Diderot, Denis

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

— Franklin, Benjamin

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

— La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

— Mann, Thomas

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

— Pascal, Blaise

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

— Pope, Alexander

You always admire what you really don't understand.

— Roosevelt, Eleanor

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

— Rostand, Jean

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

— Wolfe, Nero