Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
A person is always ready to favour him from whom he received a gift in the past. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
All that is required of us, in our new sexual ethic, is that we have sex in a way that favours us… — Richard Summerbell Copy Share Image
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute--… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
We are the best team of the tournament and deserved the title but luck did not favour us. I think the future… — Mamunul Islam Copy Share Image
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness…is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For society to function some kind of reasonable balance has to be stuck between the competing interests of creditors and debtors. Although… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
I favour an interpretation of quantum mechanics (the 'Everett interpretation') according to which reality branches in any chancy quantum situation. On this… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
