Admiration Quotes

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Samuel Daniel

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Samuel Johnson

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

William Lyon Phelps

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Andrea Dworkin

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Jean Cocteau

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.

Denis Diderot

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

William Hazlitt

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

George Sand

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

Benjamin Disraeli

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Andre Maurois

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration, Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.

Charles Stanley

The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold, dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love.

Lucy Maud Montgomery