To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.