Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

-Anouilh,Jean
L'Hermine, act1.

What I like about Clive Is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said For being dead.

-Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
  Biography for Beginners,'Clive'.

Fair Italy! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee?

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza 26.

If you recognize anyone, it does not mean that you like him.We all, for instance, recognize the honourable Member for Ebbw Vale.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Of Ernest Bevin, in a House of Commons debate on1 Julon British recognition of communist China.

Nay, for my part I always despised MrTattle of all things; nothing but his being my husband could have made me like him less.

-Congreve,William
  Mrs Frail to Mrs Foresight. Love for Love, act 5, sc.11.

'I don't think I understand people very well.I only know whether Ilike ordislikethem.' 'Thenyouarean Oriental.'

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  A Passage to India, ch.2.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

-Greenberg, Clement
  Aged 82, on the relative ease of negative criticism over positive. In the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quoted in Denis Donoghue England, Their England (1988).

Whether you like it not, history is on our side.We will bury you.

-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
  Remark to Western diplomats at the Kremlin,18 Nov. Khrushchev later claimed that he had meant 'We will overtake you [economically]', rather than this more sinister version.

Take caretoget what youlike or youwill be forcedto like what you get.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings'.

Do I not like that!

-Taylor, Graham
  During England defeat to Norway, recorded in television documentary.

The Americans are our best friends, whether we like it or not.

-Thompson, Robert
Oft-quotedremark recalledby Peter C Newman in HomeCountry (1973).

I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.

-VaughanWilliams, Ralph
Of his Fourth Symphony. Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).