Top 100 Quotes About Favour
#1. I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")
Bernard Capes
#2. Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
David Hume
#3. I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.
Ratan Tata
#4. He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice favour runs in favour of two.
Charles Dickens
#5. When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.
Michel Houellebecq
#6. Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
Alan Cumming
#7. We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right from manufacturing a pin to manufacturing a car, and generally went to people who found favour with the government.
Sunil Mittal
#10. I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman ... is a despot; the average man is a serf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#11. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.
George Santayana
#12. Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.
Douglas Coupland
#13. I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.
Narendra Modi
#14. My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute, and daring - perhaps desperate - line of action. I had nothing to lose.
Charlotte Bronte
#15. Sensible men were not eager to submit themselves to the Judgement of the Almighty, and a decisive battle seemed to prove that the victor had God on his side. Most people preferred not to put the Lord's Favour to such a stringent, conclusive test.
Sharon Kay Penman
#16. Mrs. Bennet was beyond the reach of reason, and she continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
Jane Austen
#18. I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
Michael Foot
#19. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.
Blaise Pascal
#20. I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
Jim Knight
#21. There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
Harbhajan Singh
#22. He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
Chanakya
#23. Highland Regiment in favour of Government,
Various
#25. I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
Tony Abbott
#26. The only chance of my doing something really violent in favour or truth or justice or what have you would lie in my going homicidally insane.
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. Princes should devolve on others those matters that entail responsibility, and reserve to themselves those that relate to grace and favour.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#28. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
Winston Churchill
#29. To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.
Ben Elton
#30. It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#31. Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour ...
Robin Lane Fox
#32. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
Samuel Johnson
#33. Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician.
Deepak Chopra
#35. 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.
Rene Descartes
#36. Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#37. The true test of life isn't how you cope when everything is going in your favour; it's how you deal with things that could destroy you, if you let them.
Holly Bourne
#39. One should make the effort to create a positive thrust in the phenomenal world in one's own favour and also to cultivate the mental strength for forbearance.
Ramanuj Prasad
#40. False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.
Francis Quarles
#41. 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
#42. Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.
Aldous Huxley
#43. Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
Arthur Henderson
#44. Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46
Robert Goodwin
#45. I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown ... let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered.
Ned Kelly
#46. She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."
Lucinda Creighton
#47. Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.
Anthea Turner
#50. I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.
Gerry Harvey
#52. What man's labour cannot do in ten years, GOD's favour can settle it in ten seconds.
Osunsakin Adewale
#53. Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
Tom Stoppard
#54. I am logically in favour of a referendum. It would be the only legitimate way.
Jacques Chirac
#55. Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.
John Lindsay
#56. Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd when others are more wicked; not being the worst stands in some rank of praise.
William Shakespeare
#57. Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
Fran Drescher
#58. Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells ... any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.
James E. Webb
#59. For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Anonymous
#60. When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.
David Blunkett
#61. In response to a question about his team's execution - "I'm all in favour of it.
John McKay
#62. You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
Arthur Helps
#63. Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
W. Somerset Maugham
#64. We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.
Michael Gove
#65. Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.
Dave Bautista
#66. Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.
Rolfe Barnard
#67. When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.'
Rory Culkin
#68. 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
#69. PRO3.3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: PRO3.4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. PRO3.5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Anonymous
#70. 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
#71. The delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants.
Anonymous
#72. You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.
Mohsin Hamid
#73. Lucien Knight was a walking, talking hang up, a beautiful mass of contradictions. He'd been single-minded in his mission to free her from her marriage and it was time to return the favour.
Kitty French
#74. You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#77. Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#78. A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. Was this really the supposed better deal from surrendering our military hospitals in favour of gaining better clinical experience from the NHS?
Stuart Tootal
#80. Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca The Younger
#81. 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
#82. If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.
Nikki Rowe
#83. It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Philip Sidney
#85. It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.
Jeremy Corbyn
#86. In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.
Huey Long
#87. When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.
Chris Oyakhilome
#88. The most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.
Alan Moore
#89. When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#90. Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
David Bailey
#91. Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.
Anthony Eden
#92. 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.
King Hassan II
#94. The getting that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity): - this is what is meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared.
Lao-Tzu
#95. In the tabernacle of grace, all your obstacles will be tackled. Wake up to see it happen live. You are victorious in all things!
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
David Blunkett
#98. Miss Tox left her seat in a hurry, and returned to her plants; clipping among the stems and leaves, with as little favour as a barber working at so many pauper heads of hair.
Charles Dickens
#99. I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.
Kurt Rambis
#100. Did you hear charming Karren Brady this morning complaining about sexism? Do me a favour, love.
Richard Keys
