Quotes about Preference
If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.
— Clay Aiken
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
— Virginia Woolf
She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.
— Virginia Woolf
Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.
— Walt Disney
There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
— Winston Churchill
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
— Oscar Wilde
Wouldn't you rather be asked a question than be given an order?
— Dale Carnegie
Read anthing, trash or trashier; and listen to thrash. Espceially 83-90 era. They will absorb you. You will be in dire need of beer. Now that's something you must be picky of.
— William Faulkner
What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
— William Golding
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau