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Quotes About Admiration

It's a Kalahari diamond," he said. "I picked a square cut because it looks like a crystal of salt." Margot reached across the table and touched two fingers to his lips. "It's the prettiest thing I ever saw.
~ Susan Wiggs
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
~ Susan Wiggs
Mr Norrell was very well pleased. Lord Liverpool was exactly the sort of guest he liked – one who admired the books but shewed no inclination to take them down from the shelves and read them.
~ Susanna Clarke
Sometimes you my graciously permit all the most beautiful ladies in the land to wait in line to kiss your hands and fall in love with you.
~ Susanna Clarke
Cat Ellington is the Bo Jackson of the creative arts. Everything she does, she does extremely well. And I'm proud of her. I'm proud to say that a woman as beautiful and gifted as she is has a solid place in both my personal and professional lives.
~ Joseph Strickland
During duty tours in China during the 1930s Carlson accompanied Mao Tse-tung and his army on the Long March and into combat against the Japanese. Carlson deeply admired Mao.
~ Joseph Wheelan
The quality of Scotchness was a highly concentrated essence, and should always be diluted. As an ingredient it was admirable; neat, it was as abominable as ammonia.
~ Josephine Tey
I felicitate Richard Plantagenet." "I'm positively beginning to like the guy.
~ Josephine Tey
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
~ Josh McDowell
Aren't you capable of finding anything beautiful in the world?" I'd tell her, she'd say, "I do not want to know about those websites. Please keep those disgusting websites to yourself.
~ Joshua Ferris
She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.
~ Joyce Maynard
Y Laverde lo admiraba como se admira desde la simpatía y la experiencia: la simpatía de saber que uno también es admirado y la experiencia de saber que uno tiene la que al otro le falta.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
She looked like what all women wanted to grow up to look like:
~ Jude Deveraux
Humility is easy, although Miss Manners much admires brilliant humility. The usual variety, with its claims about feeling awed and hoping to be worthy, is tiresome. But it is extremely difficult to make others acquainted with how very much one has to be humble about. No, that's not quite what Miss Manners meant to say. What is difficult is to establish gracefully that one has cause to be proud and haughty, before one can be contrastingly humble. The
~ Judith Martin
the standing ovation from a rare and valued tribute
~ Judith Martin
Garth strode into the room, his face alight with love.
~ Judith Michael
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you
~ Jules Renard
You are the bravest girl I've ever met, Miss Royal. I admire your courage.' I met her gaze and saw that she was not looking at me as the scruffly commoner, but as the heroine of my own take. As her equal. 'Please call me Cat,' I said. 'All my friends do.' She smiled. 'Yes, I'd like that. And call me Lizzie.
~ Julia Golding
esposa, Ilse, también le puede hablar de ella. Ya ve, la quería mucho.
~ Julia Navarro
But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.
~ Julia Quinn
This was Penelope, and this was love.
~ Julia Quinn
And when he kissed her . . . All she wanted was more. "You are so beautiful," he murmured, and for the first time in her life, Sarah truly believed that she was. She touched his cheek. "So are you." Hugh smiled down at her, a silly half grin that told her he did not believe her for one second.
~ Julia Quinn
Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I'm wrong. It's brighter than the sun, just as you are.
~ Julia Quinn
All three men looked at the woman in the doorway, but they all saw different things. Alex saw a rather attractive young lady with a remarkable air of vitality in her silver eyes. John saw the woman he'd come to like and admire tremendously this past week, looking rather fetching and grown-up in her new gown and coiffure. Dunford saw an angel.
~ Julia Quinn