Admirable Quotes

231 quotes by 207 authors

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a… — Henry Fielding
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide
That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last… — Elizabeth Gilbert
An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality. — Jasmine Guy
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of… — Edna Ferber
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. — Helen Hayes
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies… — Homer
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both… — Victor Hugo
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy… — Thomas Huxley
I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that… — Ben Kingsley
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his… — Jose Marti
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed… — Vladimir Nabokov
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. — Will Oldham
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired… — Bertrand Russell
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals. — Jonathan Sacks
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. — Delmore Schwartz
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in… — William Shakespeare
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. — Gloria Steinem

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