Admirable Quotes

231 quotes by 207 authors

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible â€˜Iâ€™â€¦. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where… — Jacques Barzun
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed… — Charles Babbage
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either… — Antonin Scalia
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham
I'm a maniacal perfectionist. And if I weren't, I wouldn't have this company.... I have proven that being a perfectionist can be profitable and admirable… — Martha Stewart
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person; but one's ideal… — Robert Audi
The desire for love is universal but that has never meant itâ€™s worthy of respect. Itâ€™s not admirable to want love, it just is. — Rachel Kushner
I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly… — Dean Acheson
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the… — William Bartram
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or… — Henry David Thoreau
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly… — Ambrose Bierce
My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of… — Richard Rorty
It is at night that faith in light is admirable. — Edmond Rostand
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable. — Joe R. Lansdale
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. — William Godwin
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful… — Eric Hobsbawm
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor,… — A J P Taylor
It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present. — Marguerite Yourcenar

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