Definition of Liking

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Liking

of Like

Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See Like, to look.

The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See On liking, below.

The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure; preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is an amusement I have no liking for.

Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.

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Liking Quotations

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
Virginia Woolf

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

Liking Translations

liking in French is tropisme

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