Favour Quotes

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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

God and posterity will show me more favour

Chance favours the trained mind.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

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.

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.

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

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

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

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

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

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.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

God's favour is happiness.

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

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Men are never attached to you by favours.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society