Top 100 I Rather Quotes
#1. I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.
Jane Birkin
#2. I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?
Chris Hardwick
#3. I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#5. And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in pale blue trunks that I rather liked the look of.
Alan Hollinghurst
#6. I rather fight for light then to go blind in night.
Nadair Desmar
#7. Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
#9. I am not a person who tries on in the stores. It drives me crazy. So I buy and take back if I don't like something. I really don't enjoy being in the dressing room. I rather just try it on in my house.
Jessica Simpson
#10. Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
Alexander McCall Smith
#11. The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,' said Mrs March. 'In most families there comes, now and then, a year full of events; this has been such an one, but it ends well, after all.
Louisa May Alcott
#12. I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.
Philip Kitcher
#13. GERRY
I would step on your face!
HACKENSACKER
That's quite all right, I rather enjoyed it.
GERRY
Twice!
HACKENSACKER
You made quite an impression.
Preston Sturges
#14. Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.
Behdad Sami
#15. As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.
Bruce Tognazzini
#16. Eyes that say you never must, nose that says why don't you? and a mouth that says I rather wish you could: such is the portrait of Mary A - as she and I pass by.
J.M. Barrie
#17. I rather wished I'd stabbed him somewhere less awkward.
Glen Duncan
#18. I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#19. I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.
Robertson Davies
#20. Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.
Akinari Ueda
#21. I believe in children praying
well, women, too, but I rather think God expects men to be more self-reliant. I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles.
Joseph Conrad
#22. I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary
Charlotte Bronte
#23. Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
Andrew Marr
#24. Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog." "And you," returned Sydney, busy concocting the punch, "are such a sensitive and poetical spirit -
Charles Dickens
#25. I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
William Shakespeare
#26. I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would.
Samantha Stosur
#28. I rather enjoy that sense of bewilderment a novel gives you when you start reading it, but if the first effect is fog, I'm afraid the moment the fog lifts my pleasure in reading will be lost, too.
Italo Calvino
#29. At the time there were moments of extreme discomfort; but the adventure, the danger, the exhilaration of doubt and peril are in retrospect something I rather regret having lost.
Elizabeth Peters
#30. My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.
Alice Eve
#31. I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.
Jonathan Swift
#32. Oh, I don't know. Italy always seemed an awfully long way to go for fascism and olives." "I rather like olives." "Mother rather liked fascism. We had to burn all the photographs when war was declared." They
Chris Cleave
#33. At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
Matt Smith
#34. I rather like the fact that women are so into vampires though. I suppose if it wasn't for Sparkly the neighborhood vampire that would not have been possible.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#35. If my stupidity makes you smile, I rather prefer to act always as stupid.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. I rather go to see a good play than be in one.
Alfre Woodard
#37. I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
Celia Imrie
#38. I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.
George Orwell
#39. I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.
Marge Piercy
#40. I have no remorse. As to whether recollection of my deeds makes me feel ashamed, I will tell you. Thinking back to all the details is not at all unpleasant. I rather enjoy it.
Peter Kurten
#42. I think myself so terribly 'clever' that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I'm 'cleverly' creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.
William Landay
#44. Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
Bob Monkhouse
#45. I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.
Marjane Satrapi
#46. Time travel is always more magical somehow when you go into the past. Traveling into the future is something you do, every day. You're just not going to get very far. So, I rather like the past travel.
Steven Moffat
#47. When I look for a woman, I look for one that's real - that's keeping it 100. I rather someone know that they're sexy and not show it.
Jeremih
#48. Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.
Louisa May Alcott
#49. So rather than spending my golden years searching for the meaning of my life, I rather believe I'll just keep on trying to make some meaning out of my life right up until I pitch over nose first into the dirt for that little nap. - Tom King (I Ain't Afraid of No Grim Reaper)
Tom King
#50. The destruction of all Shadowhunters' said Scott. 'I rather thought you knew that. It isn't a gardening club.
Cassandra Clare
#51. It's a compliment. Say thank you. I rather like the connotations to the blow jobs you give. It's like you enjoy it as much as me.
Jettie Woodruff
#52. In theory I rather admire the Spaniards for not sharing our Northern time-neurosis; but unfortunately I share it myself.
George Orwell
#53. I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible ... and good? What would we find to talk about?
L.M. Montgomery
#55. Isn't it amazing the effect on one's perspective that can be made by a glass of wine and a moment's peace?" he asked.
I rather thought that it was amazing the effect one glass of wine and one grumpy old dude could have on my libido, but no way was I telling him that.
Jen Crane
#56. If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.
Moffat Machingura
#57. I already have a son
One is enough?
There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed one the fatherhood front didn't I? Some errors don't bear repeating.
Michelle Richmond
#58. I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.
Norman Granz
#59. I rather wished for their ruin, than studied to avoid it.
Daniel Defoe
#60. While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true of theories ...
Richard C. Cox
#61. God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
Robert Burns
#62. An instant later, a silk hat materialised in the air beside me, considerably down and to the left, and my special, only technically unassigned cohort grinned up at me - for a moment, I rather thought he was going to slip his hand into mine.
J.D. Salinger
#63. I rather be divisive than boring. The last thing I want to be is a bowl of sugar free vanilla pudding, it's not something you necessarily hate but it's not something you ask for. I'd rather be something people passionately care about one way or another than be kind of in the middle.
Andy Biersack
#64. I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.
Erika M. Szabo
#65. I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.
Tom Robbins
#66. I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.
Gemma Malley
#67. I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
Lou Reed
#68. Some of us will experience some form of mental illness in their lifetime... I rather have depression that can be treated with a pill and my free will to conquer it; than have a physical illness that results in my demise because no matter what I did I could not conquer it.
Brian Michael Good
#69. I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.
Jerry Fodor
#70. I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.
Cassandra Clare
#71. I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.
Jane Austen
#72. I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.
Kobo Abe
#73. I rather be thin dog running free than a fat one chained
Thabiso Monkoe
#74. Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a face. "I rather kiss a copperhead." I grabbed the envelop from his hand. He laughed and held up his hands in surrender. Don't worry. It was only a figure of speech.
Jenna Black
#75. I rather would prefer to see the movie theatrically, which I have the ability to do.
Joel Silver
#76. And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now ... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and ... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.
Alan Moore
#77. Yes, Bob, I rather thought entity-relationship diagrams were your sort of thing. You're the expert in Visio, aren't you? Drawing up UML diagrams of fictional vampire brood hierarchies should keep you out of trouble for a while.
Charles Stross
#79. But I rather thought
I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair."
"I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
Joanne Harris
#80. I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#81. I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it.
Shannon L. Alder
#82. My original idea was to photograph Princess Diana in her tiara. But then I thought, am I interested in seeing another picture of her as a royal person, or would I rather see what she is actually about? And that's why I decided to do her without jewels, without shoes, without trimmings.
Mario Testino
#83. I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
Emily VanCamp
#84. They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them.
Hugh Laurie
#85. Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
Bill Watterson
#86. I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet was not accepted, when I was not accepted, when I was considered a freak for wanting to be a ballet dancer. And, to be 100% honest, I rather dreaded coming back ...
Robert Helpmann
#87. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
Comte De Lautreamont
#88. I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.
David Lean
#89. It's been a year and 3 months since we've kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.
Alishah Khan
#90. Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.
Ingrid Newkirk
#91. But, my dear, if you should be caught out in the storm!"
"Why, I don't know but I should like it! What harm could it do? I'm not soluble in water - rain won't melt me away! I think upon the whole I rather prefer being caught in the storm," said Cap, perversely.
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#92. I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
Arnold Bennett
#93. Never doubt how beautiful you are, Callie. For your beauty has quite ruined me for all others. And, frankly, I rather wish I'd found you years ago.
Sarah MacLean
#94. I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'
Jack Kerouac
#95. I cannot perfectly agree to everything he has related. However, there are many things in the commonwealth of Utopia that I rather wish, than hope, to see followed in our governments.
Thomas More
#96. The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.
Cassandra Clare
#97. A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope.
Jo Walton
#98. I have no particular plan in life - and that's something I rather like. Most things that people do seem to me to be rather dull and silly. In my ideal life I'd be left alone to read
Elizabeth Knox
#99. We will civilize you yet," she retorted.
"I don't know," Tristan said abruptly. "I rather like him uncivilized." Then he seemed to realize what he'd said, and went crimson.
Rowan Speedwell
#100. I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.
P.G. Wodehouse
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