(406 quotes found)
“If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.”
Cleopatra
“Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”
Ann Landers
“Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases”
Samuel Johnson
“We live by admiration, hope and love; and even as these are well and wisely fixed, in dignity of being we ascend”
William Wordsworth
“The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
Jean Cocteau
“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.”
William Bennett
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce
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