Favour Quotes

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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Thomas Howes
I never thought I'd be one of those old hams who favours theatre over everything, but I'm getting that way. Telly and film seemed more… — Paul McGann
Plants, in a state of nature, are always warring with one another, contending for the monopoly of the soil,-the stronger ejecting the weaker,-the more vigorous… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form. — Marshall McLuhan
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in… — Edmund Burke
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit… — Agnes Macphail
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours. — Terry Eagleton
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.… — Edward St Aubyn
If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing… — Clive Anderson
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… — Susan Cain
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour… — Thomas Huxley
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… — Rene Descartes
Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and… — John Templeton
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
The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for… — Morgan Freeman
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. — Plautus
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
I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing… — Augustus William Hare

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