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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? -- Alexander Pope
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender... -- Heinrich Heine
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. -- Anatole France
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo Rosten
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. -- George Jean Nathan
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. -- Park Chan-wook
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do. -- Monica Crowley
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste. -- Irwin Winkler
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman. -- Ernestine Rose
Idolizing is a strong word, though. I'm happy that people respond well to the work I'm doing now. If anyone admires what I'm doing in any way, then I'm really proud of it. -- Scott Wolf
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven. -- Delphine de Girardin
I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person. -- Hanya Yanagihara
The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways. -- Salman Khurshid
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. -- Philip Stanhope
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way. -- James Hillman
No animal admires another animal. -- Blaise Pascal
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. -- Edmund Morris
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. -- Earl Tupper
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave -- Edmund Morris
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. -- Susan Cain
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. -- Oscar Wilde
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. -- Honore de Balzac
Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are. -- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why -- Jean Rostand
Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men. -- Lucullus
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. -- Edmund Waller
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. -- Fran Lebowitz
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them. -- Max Beerbohm
Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person. -- Scott Lynch
Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. -- Lord Chesterfield
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. -- George Sand
Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe. -- Carl Sagan
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it. -- Karen Joy Fowler
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. -- Oscar Wilde
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it. -- Hermann Hesse
What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God. -- Origen
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. -- Alexander Pope
Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand -- Ole H.
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. -- Patricia McConnell
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us. -- Sydney J. Harris
I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone. -- Elizabeth Gillies
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him. -- Thucydides
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself. -- Ambrose Bierce
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives. -- Desmond Tutu
We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance. -- Lech Walesa
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent. -- Berthold Auerbach
The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm. -- Confucius
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. -- John Milton
I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone. -- William Congreve
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. -- James Salter
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. -- William Faulkner
One of the characters is admired by someone who admires no one else in life because he "gets this song in life, and has a habit of inviting people to the dance. -- Crazy Ones
You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture? -- Rudolf Steiner
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself. -- Scott Kahn
Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing. -- Nikki Sixx
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires? -- J. M. Coetzee
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. -- Sigmund Freud
A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it. -- Alexander Pope

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