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Quotes About Admiration

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!
~ Mark Twain
Few men are admired by their servants.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
~ P. C. Cast
But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.
~ Paul Gascoigne
If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.
~ Propertius
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
~ Oscar Wilde
If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.
~ Rob James-Collier
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!
~ Robert Genn
More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
~ Sean Connery
Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
~ Stephen Ambrose
I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
~ Tamora Pierce
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!
~ Tyler Perry
I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
~ Alex Pettyfer
If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife.
~ Ryan Stiles
Mark (McGwire) is the man.
~ Sammy Sosa
I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
~ Stan Getz
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.
~ Jane Austen
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
~ Jane Austen
The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere