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 on admiration
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"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 on admiration
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."

Brooke, Rupert on admiration
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"To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration."

Cooley, Charles Horton on admiration   

"Distance is a great promoter of admiration!"

Diderot, Denis on admiration
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."

Franklin, Benjamin on admiration   

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on admiration
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"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 on admiration   

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

Pascal, Blaise on admiration   

"Fools admire, but men of sense approve."

Pope, Alexander on admiration   

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on admiration
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

Rostand, Jean on admiration   

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

Wolfe, Nero on admiration   

"For the admired there are many, for the admirer there is one. "

Mithani, Adnan on admiration   

"To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind."

Gautier, Theophile on admiration
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