I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
“I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“I would rather be a brainless beast than a heartless monster, like you.”
“I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.”
“I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.”
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Source: The essence of Christianity
“I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.”
“I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.”
Source: Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader
“I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift...
“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
“I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
Source: Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings
“I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.”
Source: Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden
“I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-race power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.”
“I would rather be a person who struggled there than someone who had a great, easy time and then got out in the world and was like, "Wait a minute, I didn't get voted class president? What's going on?" You know, "popular" doesn't necessarily correlate to anything. "Popular" still has to get up at 7:00 in the morning and go to work and do something worthy too. There's no edge, really, that you get from being whatever was popular in school.”
“I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne”
Source: The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices
“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”
“I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.”
“I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.”
“I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.”
“I would rather be a something treated as a nothing, than a nothing treated as a something.”
“I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.”
Source: The Secret Mandarin
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
Source: Either/ Or
“I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.”
“I would rather be a womaniser than a sodomiser.”
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
Source: The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
“I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.”
“I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.”
“I would rather be alone than be in a relationship that drains me mentally and emotionally.”
“I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
Source: Killosophy
“I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”
“I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust.”
“I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.”
“I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bunch reunion.”
“I would rather be at the bottom of the earth with God, than being alone on the hilltop”
“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.”
“I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.”
“I would rather be beloved than famous. You are fairer than success and honors. There, fling the pencils away, and burn these sketches! I have made a mistake. I was meant to love and not to paint. Perish art and all its secrets!”
“I would rather be bored alone than with someone else. I'm drawn to strange people. At a museum I look at people with the eyes of an artist, in the streets with my own. I can't remember the name of a person I have just met. In India, I travelled in a train compartment with a Swiss man I didn't know, we were crossing the plains of Kerala, I told him more about myself in several hours than I had told my best friends in several years, I knew I would never see him again, he was an ear without repercussions. Maybe I'm writing this book so I won't have to talk to anymore.”
Source: Autoportrait
“I would rather be British than just.”
“I would rather be called a character actor than a star.”
“I would rather be called an artist than a politician.”
“I would rather be called funny than pretty.”