Admires Quotes
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The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
George Moore— 1946 in the Saturday Review, c.1912.
A society that admires its shock troops had better be bloody careful about where it's going.
— 1986 A Perfect Spy, ch.18.
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
william makepeace thackeray— 1848 The Book of Snobs, ch.2.
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
leo rosten— As quoted in The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967) by Ralph Louis Woods
— Variants:
— A conservative is someone who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
— A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
What we are most anxious about is our anxiety itself: the greatest of all sins, Auden learns from Kafka, is impatience and he decides that the hero “is, in fact, one who is not anxious.” But it was inevitable that Auden should arrive at this point. His anxiety is fundamental; and the one thing that anxiety cannot do is to accept itself, to do nothing about itself consequently it admires more than anything else in the world doing nothing, sitting still, waiting.
Randall Jarrell— “Freud to Paul: The Stages of Auden’s Ideology”, p. 180
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
samuel johnson— The Life of Milton.
He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.
thomas carew— Thomas Carew, Disdain Returned.
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloating upon a sheep's Or bullock's personals, as if his own; How he admires his halves And quarters and his calves, As if in truth upon his own legs grown.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, A Butcher. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
— Leo Rosten, as quoted in Ralph Louis Woods, The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967).
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
— Leo Rosten, as quoted in The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967) by Ralph Louis Woods
