Admiration Quotes

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. (Katharine Hepburn)
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. View quote
Ann Landers
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. View quote
William Hazlitt
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. View quote
George Sand
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed. View quote
Jean Cocteau
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. View quote
Roald Amundsen
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. View quote
Samuel Daniel
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. View quote
Rod McKuen
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. (Apuleius)
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view. View quote
Joseph Addison
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. View quote
Matthew Arnold
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. View quote
Jane Austen
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. View quote
Jane Austen
Distance is a great promoter of admiration. View quote
Denis Diderot
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. View quote
Albert Einstein
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people. View quote
Stephane Hessel
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. View quote
Charles Kuralt
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of. (Scott Stapp)
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations." View quote
André Malraux
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. View quote
Joseph Priestley