Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall... have no strength to repent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah! Freedom is a noble thing! Freedom makes man to have liking:... Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to bu...rn down everything they ever did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father is one of the few men I know who say they do not like Shakespeare. He says "Shakespeare is so very coarse." I could forg...ive my father for not liking Shakespeare if it was only because Shakespeare wrote poetry, but this is not the reason. He says he likes Tennyson and this gravely aggravates his offence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my at...tention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment--like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cann...ot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"But there's always been rich and poor, and that's all there is to it. And us two won't change it, either." The carpenter ca...lmly puffs away: "Only the ones that likes it ought to be poor. Let the others have a try at it first. I ain't got no liking for it. A fellow gets tired of it after a while."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the midd...le and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[W]hat I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a mos...t sincere desire of the good and happiness of its object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »