#Preference Quotes

“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”

“Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.”

“I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.”

“I like people who can do things”

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

“I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”

“As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.”

“I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.”

“The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.”

“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”

“I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42.”

“I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do.”

“Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.”

“All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia”

“I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].”

“I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.”

“I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.”

“If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.”

“You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.”

“I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.”

“Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.”

“I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.”

“I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.”

“No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.”

“I like control.”

“I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.”

“No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.”

“I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.”

“I'd rather write about polar bears than people.”

“I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself.”

“I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots”

“I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.”

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”

“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”

“[My favourite song is] "All Along the Watchtower." The Jimi Hendrix cover.”

“Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.”

“There is nothing I like more than pure underground music”

“I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.”

“A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.”

“Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better colour.”

“But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.”

“I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.”

“The sooner every party breaks up the better.”

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“How much I love every thing that is decided and open!”