Favours Quotes

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Chance favours a prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. — Ryan Kwanten
According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the… — Swami Vivekananda
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are. — Fiona Wood
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours. — Jacques Delors
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… — Charles Lamb
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
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
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
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
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
Men are never attached to you by favours. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements… — James Anthony Froude
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up… — Sloane Crosley

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