A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Horace

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
Katarina Witt

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
Gale Gordon

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Stuart Chase

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Lord Acton

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
George W. Bush

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Richard Le Gallienne