Quotes with admires

  • All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
  • Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

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  • Berthold Auerbach All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • W. M. Thackeray He who meanly admires mean things is a snob.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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  • Anatole France The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Jean Rostand The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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