Quotes About Admiration

A tried stedfast woman is the one jewel of the sex. She points to her husband like the sunflower; her love illuminates him; she lives in him, for him; she testifies to his worth; she drags the world to his feet; she leads the chorus of his praises; she justifies him in his own esteem. Surely there is not on earth such beauty!

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

A male star named "T.T. Boy"....is a legend in the business [actor in commercial porn films]. T.T. Boy does not look at all glamorous - he's a small, tough-guy, assistant mobster type; sometimes he chews gum during his lovemaking scenes. He pounds his partners...Once memorably described as 'nothing more than a life-support system for his penis,' he got the kind of admiring, solid applause reserved for a large artillery piece going by in a parade.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

Seventeen, and beautiful, and already a legend. Half the girls in the Seven Kingdom want to bed him, and all the boys want to be him.

Negroes around them enviously admired their clear white skins.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.

Treading water and peering down, we could see below the shining, narrow fronds of green and black weeds growing close and tangled, over which we hung like hawks suspended in air above a strange woodland.

I shall not look upon his like again.

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

There are two things that people want more than sex and money- recognition and praise.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

Praise the sea, but keep on land.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

We all envy other people's luck.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.