"Old things are always in good repute, present……" — Tacitus
"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."
More Disfavor Quotes
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce
- The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today… — Ralph Raico
- Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world… — J Harlen Bretz
- In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a… — Billy Graham
- ....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding… — Edward Bunker
- People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? — Neil Simon
- I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows… — Elizabeth Olsen
- A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a… — Friedrich Schiller
- Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. — Samuel Richardson
- There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. — Michael Chabon
- A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are… — Michael Crichton
- Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. — Helen Wills Moody