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.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.