Favour Quotes

When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Fortune favours the bold.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Fortune favours the audacious.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

Love always causes trouble,
that's true,
but in its favour,
it energizes.

He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

Chance favours the trained mind.

God and posterity will show me more favour

The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals.

The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all that the rich must help, respect and promote the poor. I exhort you to generous solidarity and a return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favours human beings.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.