Admiration Quote by Samuel Smiles

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

— Evan Esar

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

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 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

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

“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 involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Joseph Addison

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise,…

— William Warburton

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

— Florida Scott-Maxwell