Quotes with adulation

  • Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
  • The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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  • Fawn M. Brodie A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Bill Wyman I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • William James Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Lord George Byron The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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