She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroghs

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
Elizabeth Montagu

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
Julie Christie

Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
Jeffery Deaver

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
Ezra Pound

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Alphonse de Lamartine

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.
James D'arcy

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
Robert Sheckley

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.
Dominic Chianese