Admiration

10 quotes.

• Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

  Joseph Addison

• We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

• To be able to praise a man honestly is one of the rarest of gifts.

  Samuel Johnson

• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despraux

• Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

  Denis Diderot

• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

  Alexander Pope

• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

• Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

  Bill Mcglashen

• The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

  Jean Rostand

• We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

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