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. [ Hood ]

A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. [ Balzac ]

Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. [ Waller ]

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. [ Chesterfield ]

Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. [ Boileau ]

The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, a tight hand strength. [ Charles Buxton ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]