Quote by Jean Rostand
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires wit

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

Other quotes by Jean Rostand

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand

Category:
Purity
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Admiration
category

We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Admiration

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. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Admiration

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Admiration

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

Category:
Admiration

Random Quotes

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Humanity

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. – Christina Ricci

Category:
Food

There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that wed have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. Thats dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank. – George Osborne

Category:
Fear

Everything is tennis for me, its my career and its entertainment, but its also a business. – Venus Williams

Category:
Business