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Quotes About Admiration

I think men are a beautiful creation.
~ Krista Allen
You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.
~ Curtis Hanson
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.
~ Lou Diamond Phillips
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.
~ Lucullus
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.
~ Philip Sidney
What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel
~ Plutarch
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.
~ Elbert Hubbard
To Sachin, the man we all want to be.
~ Andrew Symonds
For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
~ Calvin Coolidge
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
~ David Powers
Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
~ David Walliams
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
~ Francis Bacon
I have to admit, if Oprah were a man, I would marry her.
~ Gayle King
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
~ George Jean Nathan
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
~ Harry Truman
Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
~ A. N. Wilson
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
~ Adam Smith
To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
~ Agatha Christie
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Oh good gray head which all men knew!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson