Admire Quotes

1117 Admire quotes by 918 unique authors

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his… — Ayn Rand
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the… — Gustave Flaubert
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps,… — Julian Barnes
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look… — Banksy
Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith — Khalil Gibran
A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a… — Louis L'Amour
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species. — Mark Twain
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this… — Virginia Woolf
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… — William Strunk, Jr.
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old… — William Faulkner
Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not… — Tom Waits
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen
Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is repulsive?... — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Bad artists always admire each others work. — Oscar Wilde
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them. — Kanye West
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell… — H. L. Mencken
Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane. — Anne Sexton
Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you. — Steven Morrissey

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