Admiration Quotes - Page 5

Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

I learned from admiration and osmosis.

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.

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

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

The older you've gotten, the more respect and admiration you've received.

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.