Quotes About Admiration

I think,' said Leo [Walton], 'that he [William, 'Tiger'] must have fallen in love with you, he certainly remembered you with the eye of love.' ['Skelmerton']

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

Harriet told her, 'Captain John was so brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown eyes rested thoughtfully on Captain John. Why didn't he stay until the other leg was shot off?' she asked. But he still seemed to like Victoria best.

I was merely an onlooker; added to which, from the time I first read Pride and Prejudice I have loved Mr Darcy so much that no actual man has measured up to him.

Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties.- Miroku

These were tears of admiration for the strong women so determined to have their family against all odds. And tears of pity for herself, for the trepidation she felt in place of desire and for the pale, wan sentiment that she let pass for love.

Nothing is sexier than a competent man: I was in love.

People unable to bear the martyrdom [...] unintelligently jump off the path, and choose instead, conveniently enough, the world's admiration of their proficiency. The true knight of faith is a witness, never a teacher, and in this lies the deep humanity in him which is more worth than this foolish concern for others' weal and woe which is honoured under the name of sympathy, but which is really nothing but vanity.

The task is not to find the lovable object, but to find the object before you lovable – whether given or chosen – and to be able to continue finding this one lovable, no matter how that person changes. To love is to love the person one sees.

Creo que se podría vivir constantemente absorto en la contemplación de un ser femenino.

Everywhere I go, people love me, so I'm just blessed. Do you blame them?

I tend to get starstruck with sports people. I was on a chat show with retired Scottish footballer Denis Law and I just lost it and couldn't talk to him.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much .

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.