Admirable Quotes

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.