A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
William Lyon Phelps

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
Rene Cassin

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
John Astin

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
Daniel H. Hill

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Samuel Daniel

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen

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

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.
Robert B. Parker

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy.
Maurice Ravel