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."

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

"My dear, I find your blind admiration for me both flattering and disturbing."

"Admiration, n Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

"No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life."

"Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run."

"The staleness of custom weakens admiration, and a mediocrity that's new often eclipses the highest excellence grown old."

"Admiration is the emotion furthest from comprehension."

"Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle."

"Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds led captive."

"Few men have been admired by their own households."

"How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals."

"For fools admire, but men of sense approve."

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

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

"Season your admiration for awhile."

""Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech) To make men happy, or to keep them so," (So take it in the very words of Creech) Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?"

"To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so."

"Heroes themselves had fallen behind! —Whene'er he went before."

"On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caressé des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles."

"The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before."