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