Top 100 Admires Quotes
#1. He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united.
Jane Austen
#2. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
Hanya Yanagihara
#3. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
Sydney J. Harris
#4. A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten
#5. I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.
Elizabeth Gillies
#6. The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
Max Beerbohm
#7. Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.
Lord Chesterfield
#8. A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert ... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?
Rudolf Steiner
#9. I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
Park Chan-wook
#10. He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health.
Eileen Cook
#11. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.
Various
#12. Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.
Susan Cain
#13. You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#14. President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.
Monica Crowley
#15. What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
Lucullus
#17. Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
Carl Sagan
#18. For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.
Thucydides
#19. You've a good heart,Joanna Robbins,he said from his perch on the wagon seat. It's easy to see why Jackson admires you.
Karen Witemeyer
#20. Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.
Nikki Sixx
#21. Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
#22. Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#23. The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.
Salman Khurshid
#24. The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Alexander Pope
#26. Making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it.
Scott Wolf
#28. A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.
Alexander Pope
#29. Flowers will still bloom for the world~ regardless of whether anyone admires them or not.
Nina Montgomery
#30. You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that he once admired and still admires what he scorns, that he once greedily desired what now disgusts him.
Georg Groddeck
#31. Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
Earl Tupper
#32. The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock.
Charles Spurgeon
#33. To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
Delphine De Girardin
#34. A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
James Allen
#35. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
John Milton
#36. You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#37. I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
Bertrand Russell
#38. If you want to know what a man's character is really like ... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
Sydney J. Harris
#40. I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
#42. God cherises praises , admires thanksgiving and embraces prayer .
Osunsakin Adewale
#43. Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
George Sand
#44. Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield
#45. The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
Irwin Winkler
#46. I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.
Patricia McConnell
#48. I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that are good for the people who use them. Some disagree with this, but I know I'm right. That is to say, you're talking to a Republican who admires Elizabeth Warren.
Charlie Munger
#49. Beauty: it curves, curves are beauty. Shapely goddesses, Venus, Juno: curves the world admires.
James Joyce
#50. Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
William Congreve
#52. The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#53. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
Berthold Auerbach
#54. Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand
Ole H.
#55. Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.
Edward Dahlberg
#56. We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.
Lech Walesa
#57. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
#58. What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
Ambrose Bierce
#59. Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
Ernestine Rose
#60. The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.
Confucius
#61. Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
Scott Lynch
#62. History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
#63. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer - because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut.
Ayn Rand
#64. The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#65. Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.
Eric Cantona
#66. If a man admires a woman he had something in his mind that he would like to carry further. If a woman admires a man, she had definitely made up her mind.
Girdhar Joshi
#67. I want to be the guy who the guy you admire admires. I hope his name is Guy, because I admire M.C. Escher.
Jarod Kintz
#68. Discretion is the survival one needs around friends who admires you but hate your hapiness and success, and would do anything so that you are not up to them or better than them.
Darmie Orem
#69. A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
George Jean Nathan
#70. People who dress up in bizarre costumes have a savoir-vivre - not to mention the sort of personality disorder - that he admires.
Thomas Pynchon
#72. Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
J.M. Coetzee
#73. No man can ever admire a woman the way she admires herself.
Meeta Ahluwalia
#74. The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender ...
Heinrich Heine
#75. The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
Alfred Armand Montapert
#76. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
Alexander Pope
#77. But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.
James Salter
#78. I want to be someone she respects. Admires. But in order for that to happen, I'm going to have to change. To become stronger. As strong as her.
Amy Plum
#80. If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.
Monica Bellucci
#81. The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special.
Samuel Park
#82. Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters
and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
Thomas Hood
#84. What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
Origen
#85. The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
James Hillman
#88. be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic: teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers.
Oxford University Press
#89. The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Anatole France
#91. Could we have seen this efflorescence of stupidity? Yes, because every mass political movement unleashes the worst in human behaviour and admires it. For a time at least.
Doris Lessing
#92. The world admires wealth and velocity - these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
#93. The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
Desmond Tutu
#94. The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
Sigmund Freud
#95. Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Hermann Hesse
#96. Major de Coverley is a noble and wonderful person, and everyone admires him.'
'He's a silly old fool who really has no right acting like a silly young fool. Where is he today? Dead?
Joseph Heller
#97. Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore De Balzac
#98. As someone who understands why you did this, and admires your ability to actually accomplish it, I am-pleading with you. Cinder. Please. Take me back."
She filled up her lungs. "No.
Marissa Meyer
#99. Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.
John Steinbeck
#100. Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
H.L. Mencken
