Admiration Quotes

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The noblest calling in the world is that of mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or who can write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages long after painting shall have faded, and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that decays on growing familiar with its object unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries and kept alive by perpetual miracles rising up to its view.

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

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

Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only ... does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

Admiration: n. our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.