Social Preference Quotes

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I naturally prefer the company of people who hold grudges, as long as they are not held against me.

I was the kind of person that was very social and liked to be with an entourage and have lots of parties and have people around me. And now I find I am much more satisfied seeing people one-on-one. I avoid crowds, and I get really plagued by people as if they are bees or something. I am talking about my friends. I can only handle them one at a time.

Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people.

I love a dinner, but I love a night in.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

If we're at a lunch table, I'm going to always sit with the girls. That's just kind of how I am. I always gravitate towards women. I know how to communicate with women.

It's simple: I like happy, positive people.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.

I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

I'm a creature of habit and prefer spending time with the people who matter to me.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.