superficial admiration Quotes

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded.

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her 'beauty' his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.

Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.