Quotes about Admiration

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more.

When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?

Keep before your eyes the swift onset of oblivion, and the abysses of eternity before us and behind; mark how hollow are the echoes of applause, how fickle and undiscerning the judgments of professed admirers, and how puny the arena of human fame. For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of our own habitation but a minute corner in it; and how many are therein who will praise you, and what sort of men are they?