"The ingenuities we practice in order to appear……" — Brendan Gill
"The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning."
More Admirable Quotes
- This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically… — Mortimer Adler
- I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really… — Anthony Bourdain
- A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own… — Anita Brookner
- One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign… — James Buchan
- Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret. — Albert Camus
- McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to… — Jim Cantalupo
- I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. — Lord Chesterfield
- I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis… — Stephen Ambrose
- Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. — Walter J. Phillips
- Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed… — Theodore Beale
- Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark.… — Thomas de Quincey