Quotes About Preference

You heard me. Go away. But... where should I go? To hell or home, as you prefer.

If she wants I can find a hundred men and line them up before her naked, and she can pick the one she likes," the king said. "I would sooner she wed a lord, but if she prefers a hedge knight or a merchant or Pate the Pig Boy, I am past the point of caring, so long as she picks someone .

Music to my ears." Though not a tune I'm fond of.

A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough.

It's dangerous being free, but most come to like the taste o' it,

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

But I don't like working. I do the absolute minimum that is necessary to reach a decision. There are many people who love working. They amass an inordinate amount of information, much more than is necessary to reach a conclusion. And they become attached to certain investments because they know them intimately. I am different. I concentrate on the essentials. When I have to, I work furiously because I am furious that I have to work. When I don't have to, I don't work.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

The heart is never neutral.

I like to visit New York, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

One man's meat is another's poison.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

That suit is best that best suits me.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.