Quotes About Admiration

He's the prettiest boy I've ever seen. He must be somebody's boyfriend.

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

One can appreciate art without being in the market for a painting. That's what I meant.

Wow!" Dutch exclaimed as he took a gander at me. "You are a beautiful woman, Abby." "And you have excellent taste!" I deadpanned. I'd waited for years to say that line.

If you could learn from me how to do a brain surgery in as short a time as I am learning this roadwork, I would have great respect for you.

Pars stupet innuptae donum exitiale Minervae, et molem mirantur equi;

Ille admirans venerabile donum fatalis virgae, longo post tempore visum, caeruleam advertit puppim, ripaeque propinquat.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.' 'What d;you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more.

I like your energy. I love your legs. I long to see you.

Damn it, Madam, you are loveliness incarnation.

It's on the field, it's on the pane, it's in the sky — beauty; and I can't get at it; I can't have it — I, she seemed to add, with that little clutch of the hand which was so characteristic, who adore it so passionately, would give the whole world to possess it!

Damn it, Madam, you are loveliness incarnate," which was the truth.

I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.

Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidable for that very reason.

To be them would be marvelous, but she was condemned to be herself and could only in this silent enthusiastic way, sitting outside in a garden, applaud the society of humanity from which she was excluded.

You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, "not taking one's hat off") but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.

Did he like elms? Did he know Joyce's poem about the two washerwomen? He did, indeed. Did he like it? He did. In fact he was beginning to like very much arbors and ardors and Adas

wszystko, co budzi zachwyt wywo?any wiecznym zbli?aniem si? do celu, czeka zag?ada.

Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar.…

Vagyst?-geriausias komplimentas,kok? galima pasakyti daiktui.

Now I shall spy on beauty as none has Spied on it yet.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.