Admire Quote by Anonymous

“Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”

— Robert W. Bly

“Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Your words can enhance your beauty or detract from it”

— Darlene Dawne

“...and how positively full and brimming-to-burst with words I am. This is what Mrs. Bullwhyte would call one of my "extended flights of fancy."…

— Kate DiCamillo

“All round me are words, and words and words, They grow on me like leaves, they never Seem to stop their slow growing From…

— Kamala Suraiyya Das

“Our meddlesome intellect misshapen the beauteous form of things.”

— William Wordsworth

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

— Joseph Joubert

“We praise the virtues of beauty and truth, when in fact we esteem them only to the extent they are convenient and beneficial to…

— D.E. Sievers

“In fact, because the unself-aware—which includes basically everybody—are impervious to uncharitable perceptions of their underlying motives, all these insights you have into people and…

— Lionel Shriver

“Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to all the fascinations of flattery and light discourse.—These are nothing—and worse…

— Anne Brontë

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

— Oscar Wilde

“She taught me not to block out ugliness by giving imagined beauty false dominion: but that on the other hand, in the midst of…

— Kate McCafferty