Quotes About Admiration

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.

Western civilization's admiration for the written word and for the classics comes to us from the Catholic Church that preserved both through the barbarian invasions.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.

It depends entirely upon what is meant by being truly great. But the long and the short of the matter is, that men must stick to a thing if they want to succeed in it—not giving way to over-much admiration for the flowers they see growing in other people's borders; which I am afraid has been my case.' He looked into the far distance and paused.

Your husband, my dear, is, I make no doubt, having scorching weather all this time. Lord, if he could only see his pretty wife now! Not that this weather hurts your beauty at all—in fact, it rather does it good.

I have danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile and many a long day.

He admired her so much that he used to light the candle three times a night to look at her.

Then he stood with his back to the fire regarding her, and saw in her almost a divinity.

Let me look right into your moonlit face, and dwell on every line and curve in it!

Én csak egyvalamit fogok tenni ebben az életben... de azt biztosan... szeretni magát, vágyakozni maga után, akarni magát, míg meg nem halok.

Gabriel, para quien el rostro de Bathseba era como la gloria incierta de un día de abril, se mostraba atento al menor de sus cambios.

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.

Mixed hungers crossed his face; it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

I have always been an admirer, I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!

But admiration and sadness, admiration and worry, is not that almost a definition of love? There are people with whom it is not easy to live, but whom it is impossible to leave.

C'è nostalgia, dentro, e malinconica invidia, appena un po' di disprezzo e una grande, casta felicità.

La alegría, la sorpresa y la admiración debieron de reflejarse claramente en él cuando su mirada se cruzó con la del añorado ausente, y en ese mismo instante Tadzio sonrió.

Want voor arbeid had hij het allergrootste respect, ofschoon hij er persoonlijk wel gauw moe van werd.

Los hombres no saben por qué les satisfacen las obras de arte. No son verdaderamente entendidos, y creen descubrir innumerables excelencias en una obra, para justificar su admiración por ella, cuando el fundamento íntimo de su aplauso es un sentimiento imponderable que se llama simpatía.

Aschenbach noticed with astonishment the lad's perfect beauty. His faced recalled the noblest moment of Greek sculpture—pale, with a sweet reserve, with clustering honey-coloured ringlets, the brow and nose descending in one line, the winning mouth, the expression of pure and godlike serenity. Yet with all this chaste perfection of form it was of such unique personal charm that the observer though he had never seen, either in nature or art, anything so utterly happy and consummate.