Admirable Quotes

231 quotes by 207 authors

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton
You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually.… — J R Ward
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earthâ€”unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an… — Edgar Allan Poe
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme… — Voltaire
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable. — Daniel Handler
Itâ€™s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so… — J M Coetzee
5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities. — Bisco Hatori
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats… — Henry Miller
Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and… — Voltaire
I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: â€œI canâ€™t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne… — Emma Forrest
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on… — David Foster Wallace
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead… — William Martin
Maybe itâ€™s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition… — Michael Cunningham
The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?â€ Stannis snorted. â€œCeltigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the… — George R. R. Martin
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and… — John Gardner
Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the… — Nicholas Sparks
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we… — Scarlett Thomas
Suddenly Po shot into the courtyard from the north vestibule whooping. Katsa, seeing him, broke into a run and they tore at each other through… — Kristin Cashore

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