Like And Dislike Quotes

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

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humorous, Vices

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  J. K. Rowling

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

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• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1013, e-artnow

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• Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Interesting, Social Justice, Oppression

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• The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Hatred, Aim Of Education

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• Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Able, Said, Punning

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• I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Who I Am, Passionate

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.165, Anchor

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• The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

  Will Rogers

  Time, People, Gossip

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 190, 1958.

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• At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

  Criss Jami

  Firsts, Like You, Dislike

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

  Sallust

  Friendship, True Friend, True Friendship

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• Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, Character

  Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2008.

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• Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

  William H. Masters

  Eye, Heart, Acceptance

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• My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

  George A. Romero

  Lying, Zombie, World

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• I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Manifestation, Allegory, Dislike

  1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, foreword.

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• It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, What If, Would Be

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• The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

  Sengcan

  Spiritual, Heaven, Earth

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• this was I and not yet I, this was the wife of the President of the United States and she took precedence over me; my personal like and dislikes must be subordinated to the consideration of those things which were required of her

  Grace Coolidge

  Wife, President, United States

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