Quotes About Admiration

La verdad, había en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas.

If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a great deal, their shadows would plunge us into darkness. They are innumerable. In addition to revealing the secrets of the storytelling craft, they obliged me to explore the bottomless depths of humanity, admire its heroic deeds and feel horror at its savagery.

Overigens past die bijnaam uitstekend bij je. Niet in denigrerende zin, maar letterlijk. Dat ben je, mon vieux, ook al vind je het niet leuk: een brave jongen.' 'Weet je dat het een prachtige liefdesgeschiedenis is?' riep Elena uit, terwijl ze me verbaasd aankeek. 'Want au fond is het dat: een prachtige liefdesgeschiedenis. Deze zwartkijker van een Belg heeft nooit op die manier van me gehouden. Zij boft maar.

Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

He was, after all, Darrow's rock star, its heartthrob-musical-genius-Shakespeare, the boy who made spontaneous rapping, poetry, and wearing tweed caps cool (all small miracles unto themselves)—the kid everyone loved, longed for, yet simultaneously wished dead. He had it. An energy force field.

Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.

Os poucos heróis culinários que havia no Dreadnaught eram admirados mais pela sua resistência em combate – medida pelo número de pratos servidos numa noite, quantidade de dor e de calor suportados, número de empregadas comidas e cocktails consumidos sem efeitos aparentes. Esses eram os valores compreendidos e apreciados.

And she took in Lizzie Greystock, whom she hated almost as much as she did sermons, because the admiral's wife had been her sister, and she recognised a duty. But, having thus bound herself to Lizzie, — who was a beauty, — of course it became the first object of her life to get rid of Lizzie by a marriage.

She did like reading, and especially the reading of poetry, — though even in this she was false and pretentious, skipping, pretending to have read, lying about books, and making up her market of literature for outside admiration at the easiest possible cost of trouble

I admire the man's genius, I sense in his writings a strong kinship with my own mind; they have a macabre quality, a voluptuous flavor of mystery and evil which attracts me strongly.

But then, strangely, suddenly, there it was: the power to attract erotic attention, a particular kind of admiration. A kind that made you feel feminine—ladylike, even.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

I hate all the arts! you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval.

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.

Bohemya Krall???'n? tehdit eden büyük bir skandal?n ve Sherlock Holmes'un bir kad?n?n zekas?na yenilmesinin hikayesiydi bu. O günden beri bir daha kad?nlar?n zekas?yla ilgili espriler yapt???n? duymad?m. Ayr?ca Irene Adler'den veya fotoÄŸraf?ndan her zaman övgüyle söz etti.

I am not a whole sole admirer of womankind – as you are aware, Watson.

That's what I should like to be,—envied for my man.

Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand.

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.