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"Not to admire, is all the art I know
(Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech)
To make men happy, or to keep them so."
(So take it in the very words of Creech)
Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago;
And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach
From his translation; but had none admired,
Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, 100)
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No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at
all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship
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To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Author: Thomas Creech
Source: Translation Horace (I, ep. VI, 1)
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The king himself has follow'd her
When she has walk'd before.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaise
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Heroes themselves had fallen behind!
--Whene'er he went before.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: A Great Man
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We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love
those whom we admire.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (305)
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On dit que dans ses amours
Il fut caresse des belles,
Qui le suivirent toujours,
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Source: Maxim (305)
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For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 391)
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Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear. . . .
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, ii)
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Author: Minna Thomas Antrim
Source: None
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Author: Susan Sontag
Source: None
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Author: Joseph Priestley
Source: None
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Author: Francis H. Bradley
Source: None
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Author: Blaise Pascal
Source: None
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Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Author: Denis Diderot
Source: None
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: None
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Source: None
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Author: Jean Rostand
Source: None
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Author: Jean Rostand
Source: None
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Author: Nicolas Boileau-despréaux
Source: None
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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