| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | For fools admire, but me of sense approve. |
| Alexander Pope | Fools admire, but men of sense approve. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. |
| Blaise Pascal | Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. |
| Denis Diderot | Distance is a great promoter of admiration! |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | You always admire what you really don't understand. |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. |
| Francis H Bradley | The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. |
| Francois De La Rochefoucauld | We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. |
| Jean Rostand | The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. |
| Jean Rostand | The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. |
| Joseph Addison | 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. |
| Joseph Addison | Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. |
| Joseph Priestley | What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. |
| Minna Thomas Antrim | Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Heroes themselves had fallen behind! -Whene'er he went before. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. |
| Susan Sontag | The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. |
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