"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 ho…"

"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."

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be …"