If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.
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.
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
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.
I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.