Admiration Quote by William Warburton

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

— Evan Esar

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

— Joseph Addison

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

— Honore de Balzac

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

— Max Beerbohm

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires,…

— Gerhard Kopf