Admiration Quotes

Most popular admiration quotes

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. - Theophile Gautier quote.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

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Admiration is as indispensable to life as oxygen.
We always like those who admire us. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
We always like those who admire us.
Admiration, like love, wears out. - Marquis de Vauvenargues quote.
Admiration, like love, wears out.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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Never be too big to look up to someone.

advisory

Admiration: acknowledgment of another's similarity to oneself.

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. - Joseph Addison quote.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

flattery

Admiration, n.  Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Admiration, n.  Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration. - George Chapman quote.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Children need admiration rather than affection.

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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. - William Hazlitt quote.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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familiarity

I have always been an admirer.  I regard the gift of admiration to be, by all odds, the most indispensable for self-improvement.  Frankly, I cannot imagine where I would now be without it. - Thomas Mann quote.
I have always been an admirer.  I regard the gift of admiration to be, by all odds, the most indispensable for self-improvement.  Frankly, I cannot imagine where I would now be without it.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers. - George Sand quote.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at." - B. F. Skinner quote.
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at."