Quotes about Admiration

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

Biassou raised his hand, and as if by enchantment the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence. The discipline which Biassou had imposed upon his equals by the exercise of his power of will struck me, I may say, with admiration. All the soldiers of the force seemed to exist only to obey the wishes of their chief, as the notes of the harpsichord under the fingers of the musician.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

Théodule was, we think we have mentioned, the favourite of Aunt Gillenormand, who preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.

I love it--I just love it.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.