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Admiration is a forced tribute ; to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. - James Northcote For fools admire, but me of sense approve. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 391) There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. - Jean Rostand 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. - John Ruskin Admiration and familiarity strangers. - George Sand (pseudonym of Mme. Armandine Lucile Dupon Dudevant) For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus at II, ii) Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, ii) Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. - William Shenstone The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive. - Archbishop Richard Whately Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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