Favour quotes
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I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
-- Alan Bennett -
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
-- Alan Cumming -
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.
-- Alan Lewis -
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.
-- Anthony Daniels -
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Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
-- Anthony Eden -
Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.
-- Aravind Adiga -
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
-- Aristotle -
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
-- Arthur Helps -
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Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?
-- Benny Hill -
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.
-- Bertrand Russell -
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
-- Boris Johnson -
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.
-- Charles Lamb -
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What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of South Africans who love their country and love everybody, irrespective of their colour.
-- Chris Hani -
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
-- Daley Thompson -
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
-- David Bailey -
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.
-- David Cameron -
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I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
-- Edward St Aubyn -
You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.
-- Fiona Wood -
Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
-- Fran Drescher -
God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
-- Frank Wedekind -
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In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
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.
-- Gordon Brown -
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
-- Hassan II of Morocco -
I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.
-- Helen Mirren -
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Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
-- Horace -
To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.
-- Horace -
It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.
-- Iain Dowie -
My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
-- Iain Duncan Smith -
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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.
-- Ian Macfarlane -
In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits -
I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
-- Jacques Chirac -
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
-- Jacques Delors -
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If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.
-- James Burgh -
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
-- James Callaghan -
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.
-- Jan Peacock -
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
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I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
-- Joe Klein -
The creator of the universe is lining up things in my favour.
-- Joel Osteen -
I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.
-- John Bolton -
I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.
-- John Gielgud -
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The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.
-- John Motson -
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.
-- John Stuart Mill -
I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
-- Ken Livingstone -
I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.
-- Ken Stott -
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God and posterity will show me more favour
-- Lady Jane Grey -
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.
-- Leo Tolstoy -
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests, that is, creditors.
-- Linda McQuaig -
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
-- Lionel Blue -
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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
-- Lionel Shriver -
Chance favours a prepared mind.
-- Louis Pasteur -
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
-- Max Weber -
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Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.
-- Peter Ustinov -
We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear
-- Peter Weiss -
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
-- Philip Massinger -
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
-- Philip Sidney -
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Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.
-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein -
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
-- Plutarch -
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.
-- Richard Cobden -
Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.
-- Richard Keys -
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The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
-- Robert Walpole -
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.
-- Ryan Kwanten -
Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
-- Samuel Beckett -
Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!
-- Sarah Siddons -
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Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
-- Sophocles -
My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.
-- Stephane Hessel -
Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !
-- Suzanne Collins -
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
-- Terry Eagleton -
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I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.
-- Thomas Howes -
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
-- William Henry Maule -
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?
-- William Makepeace Thackeray -
Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
-- E. A. Bucchianeri -
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Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
-- Ferreira Gullar -
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
-- Jacqueline Rayner -
Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.
-- Paul Gambaccini -
It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
-- Michael Coren -
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Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.
-- David Brewster -
Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
-- Roy Jenkins -
With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.
-- John Bright -
Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.
-- John Lindsay -
