Quotes About Admiration

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.

For fools admire, but men of sense approve.

No animal admires another animal.

I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.

Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows; Dunno what to call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose; Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

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

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.