ADMIRATION in Classic Quotes

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1  It is one of the qualities in them that I admire most.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
2  Taking some one else's admirer when one loses one's own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
3  You are really an admirable tonic, much better than what Sir Andrew prescribes for me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
4  She breathed more freely, and for the first time for many months she really admired her son.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
5  It was not that mere physical admiration of beauty that is born of the senses and that dies when the senses tire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
6  Mr. Hubbard was a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose admiration for art was considerably tempered by the inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artists who dealt with him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood to flow through, you would simply look upon him as an admirable subject.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14
8  Opposite was the Duchess of Harley, a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3