Top 100 As You Like Quotes
#1. The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1
Stephen Fry
#2. It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
Matthew Arnold
#3. And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.
Oswald Chambers
#5. Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.
Tamora Pierce
#6. There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.
Philippa Gregory
#7. Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.
Arturo Graf
#8. If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.
Franz Kafka
#9. If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'
Douglas Adams
#10. I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.
Catherynne M Valente
#11. Do we get only one?" William asked.
"Ambitious lad," Solon said. "Well, why should there be a limit? One quirk is a miracle, but don't let me stand in your way. Quirk out as much as you like.
Lauren Kate
#12. Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
Charles Dickens
#13. Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.
Violeta Parra
#14. Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
Mason Cooley
#15. You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.
Haruki Murakami
#16. Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.
Simon Dring
#17. Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar ... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.
Sean Hughes
#18. It's a terrible thing to be alone
yes it is
it is
but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath
as terrible as you like
but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield
#19. A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.
Terry Teachout
#20. Sing as you like, don't worry about who is listening to you.
Debasish Mridha
#21. That's why for you, you have the right to be cruel to me. No matter how much you make me worry or how much danger you put me in, just as much as you like. But these are not enough 'compensation.' Even if I have to sacrifice my left over life for you, I would not utter a word of complaint.
Matsuri Hino
#22. Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!
Janny Wurts
#23. The chances are that your job likes you precisely as much as you like it, but no more.
Napoleon Hill
#24. The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about "it" is in your mind and your
to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST
Gregory Hill
#25. Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
Henry James
#26. In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.
Adolf Hitler
#27. Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live.
Kazuya Minekura
#28. You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
Leo Rosten
#29. Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
Elizabeth Kostova
#30. As long as you like me the best. And you think I'm good-looking - sort of. I'm prepared to be annoyingly persistent.
Stephenie Meyer
#31. The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
Greg Rusedski
#32. Beyond your dormitories, a world is on fire and you are kindled by underwear. Beyond your fraternities, history unfolds daily - warfare, bombings, wholesale slaughter, and you are oblivious of it all. Well, you won't be oblivious for long! You can be as stupid as you like, can
Philip Roth
#33. Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.
Ted Hughes
#34. Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.
Gautama Buddha
#35. I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#36. Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?
Gustave Flaubert
#37. Everyone's an equal shareholder. Birth shares are inalienable, and death duties are unavoidable. The estate tax is one hundred per cent. In between, you can buy and sell and earn as much as you like.
Ken MacLeod
#38. When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.
John Hurt
#39. Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
Biz Stone
#40. The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
Kate Fleetwood
#41. Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#42. Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.
John Bosco
#43. I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.
Sean Lennon
#44. This lifestyle provides the mobility to choose your locations just on a whim. Mobility is freedom to explore. With an RV all you need to do is find a place to park and wander as long as you like. Home is there when you need to relax and refresh.
Beth Inman
#45. You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.
Cecelia Ahern
#46. Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don't even mind if you misquote me !
Man Ray
#47. When you start to realize: you are something that is precious to me, "Debug" me as you like; and when you have understand "addressing byte" and "memory mapping" of my heart, then i'm implore, accept me as I am ...
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#48. Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
Salman Rushdie
#49. Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham
#50. Hello, Jean-Claude," I said. "Greetings, ma petite," he said. His voice was like fur, rich, soft, vaguely obscene, as if just talking to him was something dirty. Maybe it was. "Don't call me ma petite," I said. He smiled slightly, not a hint of fang. "As you like.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#51. People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.
Steven Pinker
#52. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).
Karolina Achirri
#53. Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
"I come and go as I please,"
you say, "swift as a heartbeat."
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me.
Rumi
#54. Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like ...
Wayne Dyer
#55. A proper young lady who should, in your opinion, play by the conventional rules. do as you like, Mr. Hopkins, but I am having a mulled wine. This feels like a good day to break rules.
A.S. Croyle
#56. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.
Lee Kuan Yew
#57. This is another dream, isn't it?"
"Perceive it as you like. I've been trying to tell you things, but you're allowing the dark things-him-to invade your thoughts and feelings.
Sandy DeLuca
#58. Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Rumi
#59. You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.
Gus Van Sant
#60. It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was a long time ago. Before it was do as you like, take to the streets.
Michel Martelly
#61. Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.
Steve Burns
#62. As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.
Joe Montana
#63. I've played Hamlet and Coriolanus, Orlando in 'As You like It' and Ariel in 'Tempest,' among others.
Christian Camargo
#64. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
Djuna Barnes
#65. What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.
Jeanette Winterson
#66. I think you can be as big as you like as long as you mean it. I really do.
Alan Cumming
#67. When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
Kate DiCamillo
#68. There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and that all the mothers experience. It's not being with them as much as you like.
Georgia Holt
#69. You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything more than some victim he has to protect. Why he thinks it his duty to protect you from the inevitable, I do not know ... unless he knows something we do not ...
Charlotte Munro
#70. She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.
Stephen King
#71. This is now your daily bread. It will never be withheld from you. You may eat as much and as often as you like. There is no end to My love.
Rick Joyner
#72. Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
Henry James
#73. You can lay your strategies as carefully as you like, but women will undo them at a stroke.
Salman Rushdie
#74. Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas Huxley
#75. Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.
Salvador Dali
#76. I found while driving in Wyoming that wearing a stetson and driving a beat-up pickup meant you could go as fast as you like, while the police picked up Californian winnebagos that went one mph over 55. After all, they wanted to bring money into the state, not merely circulate it.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
Salman Rushdie
#79. I think it was Mark Twain who said, Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
Josh Lanyon
#82. That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to come at you from the other actor. That's part of the joy and the play of it. If you don't have that it's a different kind of performance.
David Oyelowo
#83. You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, whats the point?
Timothy Spall
#85. 'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
Zoe Wanamaker
#86. He grinned down at her, that half-grin that made her heart twist, then slowly rocked forward to fill her. "Tell yourself that, Valkyrie." He leaned down to catch her gasp with his lips. "As much as you like.
Kresley Cole
#87. It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
Nick Hornby
#88. I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.
Mary Parker Follett
#89. Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?
Saint Augustine
#90. Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.
Meister Eckhart
#91. You moan a lot and jingle your change
But let's face it, there's no escape
You can flick the remote as much as you like
But she's on the TV and on every tape
John Walter Bratton
#92. If you own the facts, you may distort them as you like.
John McAfee
#93. But by the same logic as men become just through the possession of justice, or wise through the possession of wisdom, so those who possess divinity necessary become divine. Each happy individual is therefore divine. While only God is so by nature, as many as you like may become so by participation.
Boethius
#94. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.
John Lennon
#95. Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.
(From Slave)
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#96. I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.
Randall Terry
#97. Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW]
Vita Sackville-West
#98. Dream as much as you like, but the world is not a dream.
Marty Rubin
#99. One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.
Deanna Raybourn
#100. Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Johannes Tauler
