Liking Quotes

402 Liking quotes by 326 unique authors

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure.… — Richard G. Scott
I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly… — Caroline B. Cooney
Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a… — Anne Perry
Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. — Rick Steves
For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It… — David Byrne
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it… — William Shakespeare
Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind — Colleen McCullough
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds… — Sue Townsend
[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with… — Paul Bowles
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only… — Edna O'Brien
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned… — Kurt Vonnegut
The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more… — C.S. Lewis
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you… — Douglas Adams
Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the… — P.D. James
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more… — Henry James
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking. — Jose Saramago
...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if… — John Updike
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. — James M. Barrie
Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do… — Wallace Stegner
Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the… — Kurt Vonnegut
The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word… — Mark Haddon
I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just… — J D Salinger
What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly… — Paul Di Filippo

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