Like quotes
Amis Sir Kingsley 1922-1995
‘A Bookshop idyll'
Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
The Dyer's Hand
Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Augustine St. 354-430
Joannis
Love and do what you like.
Austin Warren R. 1877-1962
(in a debate on the Middle East)
[Jews and Arabs should settle their differences] like good Christians.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Journal, 1813
The more I see of men, the less I like them. If I could but say so of women too, all would be well.
Clough Arthur Hugh 1819-1861
Dipsychus
And almost everyone when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.
Dietrich Marlene 1901-1991
(attributed)
Most women set out to try to change a man- and when they have changed him, they do not like him.
Feather William
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865
(judgement of a book)
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Llewellyn Karl
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
Lowell James Russell 1819-1891
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this that you are dreadfully like other people.
Marlowe Christopher 1564-1593
The Massacre at Paris
That like I best, that flies beyond my reach.
Mencken H.L. 1880 -1956
Prejudices
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
Sallust 86-34 BC
Catiline
To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Man and Superman ‘Maxims: Stray Sayings'
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
Polite Conversation
Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
Ustinov Sir Peter
Dear Me
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
(of Bernard Shaw)
He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Letter to Dorothy Wordsworth
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
Russell Bertrand 1872-1970
The Conquest of Happiness
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.
People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
