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Quotes About Liking

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.
~ George Eliot
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
~ George Eliot
I always joke that they're all like my children, so I love them all, but I would be lying if I didn't admit that 'Wonder Woman' has an affinity for me.
~ Diane Nelson
I liked him, that Jarvis Cocker. I like the fact he was androgynous, he could appeal to everybody. He wasn't just a lad pretending to be a thug.
~ Ian Brown
I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.
~ Samuel Butler
Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
~ Sandra Boynton
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
~ John Green
I despised him for liking me so much. I wondered how he could settle for so little.
~ Marian Keyes
I believe in friendship at first sight
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.
~ Mark Haddon
I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.
~ Anthony Powell
Choosing the type of girl one likes is about the last thing left that one is allowed to approach subjectively. I shall continue to exercise the option.
~ Anthony Powell
I don't like anybody or anything, said Lucinda. Yes, you do;--you like horses to ride, and dresses to wear.
~ Anthony Trollope
The form and face of Lady Eustace, which indeed were very lovely, were distasteful to her; whereas she delighted to look upon the broad, plain, colourless countenance of Lydia Fawn, who was endeared to her by frank good humour and an unselfish disposition. In regard to men she had never asked herself the question whether this man was handsome or that man ugly.
~ Anthony Trollope
A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.
~ Anthony Trollope
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
Most of all, he liked her, the maiden named first for a salad. Not only lust and love, then. For liking surely was the most dangerous. Lust might burn out and love grow accustomed. But to like her was to find in her always the best—of herself, himself, and all the world.
~ Ellen Datlow
I went ahead and read all of George Bernard Shaw's plays for my own pleasure, because I liked the cut of his beard.
~ Elvis Costello
They really liked each other, too. Not like boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't mean. But they both had naturally curly hair, and they both thought professional wrestling was real--which are two pretty strong bonds, when you think about it.
~ Barbara Park
But surely liking the same things for dinner is one of the deepest and most lasting things you could possibly have in common with anyone,' argued Dr. Parnell. 'After all, the emotions of the heart are very transitory, or so I believe; I should think it makes one much happier to be well-fed than well-loved.
~ Barbara Pym
porque yo había observado que los hombres no solían hacer cosas a menos que les gustara hacerlas.
~ Barbara Pym
You: Why did you pick my first name? Your dad: I don't remember. You: I see. Can you give me an example of something else you can't remember? Your dad: Uh . . . what? You: Did you like the sound of my name? Your dad: Yes. Your name rhymes with platypus, and that has always been one of our favorite animals.
~ Bart King
I would've never tried acting. I was at this point in my life where I was like, 'I have this following; what am I gonna do?' I could've done reality TV, but I didn't see any longevity in that. And my manager was like, 'Have you ever acted before?' And I was like, 'No... but I'll try it.' And so I tried it, and I liked it.
~ Karrueche Tran