A Quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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Admiration Chief Delights Living

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Florida Scott-Maxwell
American - Writer

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Virginia Woolf

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

Winston Churchill

The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."

Andre Malraux

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

James M. Barrie

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Zeal is the chief source, or one of the chief sources of spiritual power. God employs living souls to communicate life. In all ages, men of zeal have produced great results. This qualification, in the absence of others, can accomplish wonders.

Charles Hodge

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

Gautama Buddha

A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

Alexander MacLaren

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

Peter Greenaway

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Roald Dahl

Drawing must seek for interest, not for admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Elbert Hubbard

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.