Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Denis Diderot
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
Ignorance is the mother of admiration
George Chapman
Van Gogh was right in saying that the method he had chosen could be compared to that of caricature. Caricature had always been "expressionist," for the caricaturist plays with the likeness of his victim, and distorts it to express just what he feels about his fellow man. As long as these distortions of nature sailed under the flag of humour nobody seemed to find them difficult to understand. Humourous art was a field in which everything was permitted, because people did not approach it with the prejudices they reserved for Art with a capital A. But the idea of a serious caricature, of an art which deliberately changed the appearance of things not to express a sense of superiority, but maybe love, or admiration, or fear, proved indeed a stumbling block as Van Gogh had predicted.
E.H. Gombrich
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George Santayana
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.
Leigh Hunt
Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
Elbert Green Hubbard