Admiration praises; love is dumb. [ Börne ]

Season your admiration for awhile. [ William Shakespeare ]

The king himself has followed near.
When she has walk'd before. [ Goldsmith ]

We live by admiration, hope, and love. [ Wordsworth ]

Few men are admired by their servants. [ Montaigne ]

Admiration is the basis of ignoraince. [ Balthasar Gracian ]

Fools admire, but men of sense approve. [ Pope ]

Admiration is the daughter of Ignorance. [ Proverb ]

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. [ George Sand ]

Distance is a great promoter of admiration! [ Diderot ]

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases. [ Dr. Johnson ]

For her own person, it beggared all description. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is an Admiration that is not the daughter of Ignorance. [ R. Glanville ]

None knew thee but to love thee, nor named thee but to praise. [ Fitz-Greene Halleck ]

There is a long and wearisome step between admiration and imitation. [ Richter ]

We always find wit and merit in those who look at us with admiration.

She is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one. [ Burke ]

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. [ H. W. Shaw ]

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. [ Bacon ]

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

We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. [ Johnson ]

The charms of wit excite admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those of the body love. [ French ]

A great name is like an eternal epitaph engraved by the admiration of men on the road of time. [ E. Souvestre ]

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and of preserving happiness. [ Horace ]

That which astonishes, astonishes once; but whatever is admirable becomes more and more admired. [ Joubert ]

Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration. [ H. Giles ]

As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues. [ Robert Burton ]

No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of man. [ Carlyle ]

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. [ Lady Blessington ]

Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. [ Carlyle ]

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. [ Shenstone ]

A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. [ John Ruskin ]

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. [ Dryden ]

Knowledge, wit, and courage alone excite our admiration; and thou, sweet and modest Virtue, remainest without honors. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. [ Platen ]

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. [ George Sand ]

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]

Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment: the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. [ George Sand ]

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. [ Macaulay ]

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

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. [ Matthew Arnold ]

The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. [ Addison ]

Love is not an intellectual admiration, a gratified imagination. It is too intangible for definement; but the soul knoweth its presence, by its fullness of content in the beloved. [ Mrs. Oakes Smith ]

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. [ Addison ]

It may be laid down as a general rule that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only a second place. [ Fielding ]

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as commonsense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. [ Hume ]

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. [ Phillips Brooks ]

In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but simply arrayed, and we doubt whether any ladies ever excited more admiration. So also the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb forms were gazed on delightedly by men worthy of them, were always very plainly dressed. [ George D. Prentice ]

Who can describe the transports of a heart truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration? [ Fordyce ]

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. [ Anna Katharine Green ]

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity. [ Goldsmith ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

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 ]

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]