Admiration Quotes - Page 20

• It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.120

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• Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have two, you aren't quite world class but you're close. If you have all three, then you don't need to die; you're already in heaven.

  William Wharton

  Love, Respect, Passion

  William Wharton (2013). “Ever After”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Fun, Humble

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

  E. O. Wilson

  Strong, Integrity, Character

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, 1998.

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• The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

  Alice Miller

  Self, Achievement, Quality

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.36, Basic Books

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• To anyone else, Xavier's use of the word angel would have sounded like nothing more than a lovesick teenager professing his admiration. Only the two of us knew differently and now we both shared a secret- that brought us closer than ever. It was as if we had just sealed the bond between us, closed the gap, and made it final.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Teenager, Angel, Two

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.205, Feiwel & Friends

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• I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.” He stroked her hair soothingly. “You will never be a millstone about my neck. Rather you're the sunshine that brightens my day.” He swallowed. “Don't you see? You brought me into the daylight. You've embraced parts of me that I was never able to let see light. Don't make me retreat again into the night. (Winter Makepeace)

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sunshine, Winter, Night

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• I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Wonderful, Know How

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• For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.85, Vintage

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• Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Struggle, Catholic

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• When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

  Stephen Crane

  Suicide, Sky, People

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1346, Library of America

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• I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Beautiful, Hero, Fate

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.106, Canongate Books

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• What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

  Iris Murdoch

  Passion, Long, Tests

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.46, Penguin

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• You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

  Frances Hardinge

  Poison, Hints, Peaches

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Twilight Robbery”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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• A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Ambition, Men, Trying

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• You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you.

  John Keats

  Home, Kissing, Yesterday

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Believe, Add

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.

  Chris Colfer

  Love You, Heart, Long

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• And Myrnin seemed quite taken with that, Claire thought; she’d never seen him look at anyone with quite that much admiration. It surprised her that it made her feel a little … what was that? Jealous? Couldn’t be.

  Rachel Caine

  Taken, Jealous, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires”, p.201, Penguin

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• She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

  Jeannette Walls

  Sorry, People, Felt

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

  Jack Gantos

  Book, Envy, Dumb

  Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.21, Macmillan

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• It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Helping Others, Men, Practice

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• The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Cheer, Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

  Aeschylus

  Envy, Literature, Envied

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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