The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
George MooreA society that admires its shock troops had better be bloody careful about where it's going.
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
william makepeace thackerayConservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
leo rostenWhat 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 JarrellWhoe'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 hoodConservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.