Quotes

Quotes about Admiration

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Elbert Green Hubbard

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Oliver Herford

She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Edmund Burke

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

William Shakespeare

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Francis Bacon