liking Quotes

“It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”

“It’s not what you like but what you are like that’s important.”

Honor doesn’t like going to school and uses her vivid imagination to describe all the reasons she doesn’t like it. At the end of the book Honor is sad because although she doesn’t have to go to school anymore, she still says she’ll miss it.

″‘But I like animals better than the best people,’ said the Doctor.”

“He was very fond of animals and kept many kinds of pets. Besides the gold-fish in the pond at the bottom of his garden, he had rabbits in the pantry, white mice in his piano, a squirrel in the linen closet and a hedgehog in the cellar.”

“We like it up here, there’s nothing to fear...”

“That’s one of those gerbil-things,′ Mrs Sparrow said in the voice of a sleepwalker. The gerbil seemed not to like her tone, for it withdrew into the tube again. Meanwhile, another gerbil sat up on its hind-legs behind another tube, on which it rested one front paw, as if to begin public speaking. It held its other paw against its white shirt-front.”

“You do not have to like them nor do you have to be like them. Always keep one thing in mind, and that is, a Cathy never have to like or be like or act like anybody in the world besides a Cathy.”

“He liked all the uncles, but best of all he liked young Uncle James. Young Uncle James was only fourteen years old, so he and Jonathan were friends.”

″‘You’ll like her Kent: a very plucky little woman.’ Now they had met and Kent was not so sure. In fact he resented her already.”

″‘I like you, Ma.’ ‘You and them hounds and all the rest o’ the stock,′ she said. ‘Mighty lovin’ on an empty belly and me with a dish in my hand.′ ‘That’s the way you’re purtiest,’ he said, and grinned.”

“I like you best of all, Uncle Marton!”

Beverley and he met again a little later at a restaurant. Both of them were in evening-dress, but they did different things with their napkins, and Antony was the more polite of the two. However, he still liked Bill.

“I couldn’t help liking Cayley in a kind of way, you know.”

I shall only look up and say ‘Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—

And take it altogether, now that we have been into most of the houses hereabouts and can judge, there is not one that we like better than this.