Acquaintance Quote by Samuel Johnson

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…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Joseph Addison

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries,…

— Joseph Addison

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

— George Sand

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

— Oscar Wilde

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine…

— Samuel Johnson

The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

— Blaise Pascal

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

“There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are…

— Lionel Suggs

Admiration is seen as a noble sentiment - we admire people for admiring others, detecting, in their admiration, a suggestion of taste and humility.

— Maria Konnikova

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

— Honore de Balzac