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Quotes About Favourite

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.
~ Claudia Winkleman
To say the truth, every physician, almost, hath his favourite disease, to which he ascribes all the victories obtained over human nature.
~ Henry Fielding
fortune, who is a tender parent, and often doth more for her favourite offspring than either they deserve or wish
~ Henry Fielding
Where do you think they've gone?' he said. 'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted. 'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.' 'Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.' 'But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?' Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile. 'Most people seem to manage,' she said. She reached across the table and touched his hand.
~ Terry Pratchett
He felt comfortable and broken-in like favourite jeans.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Schlaup nodded to show that he understood. Trolls burn villages too, he said. It's a favourite pastime with bullies all over the world, said the Bard.
~ Nancy Farmer
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
~ Celia Imrie
Martin put his hands in his pockets and whistled when he had retorted on the driver; thus giving him to understand that he didn't care a pin for Fortune; that he was above pretending to be her favourite when he was not; and that he snapped his fingers at her, the driver, and everybody else.
~ Charles Dickens
A couple of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in Uniform' and 'The Long Goodbye.'
~ Gregory Smith
The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don't go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to go other places. The Charles has been Baltimore's favourite cool hipster bar forever.
~ John Waters
We all pay an involuntary homage to antiquity – a "blind homage," as Bacon calls it in his "Novum Organum," which tends greatly to the obstruction of truth. To the great majority of mortal eyes, Time sanctifies everything that he does not destroy. The mere fact of anything being spared by the great foe makes it a favourite with us, who are sure to fall his victims.
~ Charles Mackay
More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious.
~ Alice Roberts
What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favourite aunt in our favourite poker parlour) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favourite poker in our favourite aunt).
~ Jeanette Winterson
Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
~ Mike Myers