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Quotes About Admiration

There she lays,' he cried. 'Oh there she lays! Ain't she the loveliest thing you ever saw?' 'She is, too,' said Stephen, for even to his profound ignorance she stood out among the common workaday vessels like a thoroughbred in a troop of cart-horses.
~ Patrick O'Brian
It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a certain value in that they gave a picture of what the man would wish to seem; but a very few were enough for that. And then they had a striving, aggressive quality, as though the listener had to be bludgeoned into admiration; they were the antithesis of conversation.
~ Patrick O'Brian
the lower classes naturally looked up to gentlemen and loved them, in their humble way; only gentlemen were fit to be officers.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I don't care. Cause when you see a scrap of pretty in this world, you gotta stop and give it a little respect.
~ Unknown
To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.
~ Paul Graham
Não sou daqueles que planejam acuradamente cada vírgula que escrevem e cada sopro de ar que exalam, de modo que a história, isto é, os idiotas de amanhã possam admirar sua perfeição.
~ Paul Karl Feyerabend
These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them?
~ Paul Theroux
Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you
~ Paulo Coelho
And she already has her treasure: it's you.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never hate jealous people.They are jealous because they think you are better than them.
~ Paulo Coelho
I admire you. And I admire the battle you are waging with your heart.
~ Paulo Coelho
With increasing passion she loved beauty, for beauty, she told herself, and only beauty, was pure and good and worthy of her love.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, She is heaven-good. They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.
~ Pearl S. Buck
steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all
~ Pearl S. Buck
Even our enemies call him 'great soul,' and declare that they are honored in defeat by such a one.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
~ Yayoi Kusama
Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.
~ Paul Banks
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
~ C. S. Lewis
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
~ Max Liebermann
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
~ William Shakespeare
I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.
~ Donatella Versace
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
~ Mark Twain