Lack of Admiration Quotes

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

I lost all respect for angstroms.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

The crowd paid little or no respect to every player out there tonight.

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.