Admire Quotes - Page 14

• Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Heaven, Liberty

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.299

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• [On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Party

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

  George Washington

  Office, Glare, Rounds

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.177

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• What we admire we praise; and when we praise,
  Advance it into notice, that its worth
  Acknowledged, others may admire it too.

  William Cowper

  May, Praise

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.26

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• And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
  Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Criticism, Shade

  Alexander Pope (1789). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...”, p.198

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• As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Exercise, Boys, Lessons

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc”, p.171

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Selfish, Men, Vanity

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• I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  People, Tree, Shadow

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• Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.

  Edmund Waller

  World, Retiring, Carrie

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.187

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• Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

  John Ruskin

  Taste, Causes, Purity

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Suspense, Way

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• For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

  Thucydides

  Men, Despise, Court

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• I really admire the job that not just coach Belichick has done but that Robert Kraft and his family have done, and the decisions that they made to let Bill do what he's capable of doing. I think it's a great illustration of a way to structure an NFL organization when you let the coach really run the thing.

  Pete Carroll

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

  Joan Larkin

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.

  Conor Oberst

  Art, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

  George Sand

  Silence, Simplicity, One Love

  George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.284, SUNY Press

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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• your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Play, Sweat

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

  Maureen Dowd

  Glasses, People, Noses

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• A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Plus, Folly

  "The Art of Poetry (Canto I)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1674.

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Wish, Admiration, Talent

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