admire quotes

Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a'   admirer que de choses a'   me  priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.

- Albert Camus
  La Peste.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, which, to admire, we should not understand.

-William Congreve
  Valentine. Love for Love, act 4, sc.21.

Not to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

- Alexander Pope
  Imitations of Horace, bk.1, epistle 6, l.1^2.

You always admire what you don't really understand.

- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
  In Meet the Press, NBC TV broadcast,16 Sep.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

  As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'.