Favour Quotes - Page 2

• If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Block, Humor

  "Post-Sachsgate, standups should channel Bill Hicks" by Bruce Dessau, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

  David Cameron

  Business, Way, Sorting Out

  "Conservative party conference - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

  Anthony Eden

  Political, Politics, Economy

  1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.

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• God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

  Frank Wedekind

  Men, Made

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• The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

  Aristotle

  Men, Coins, He Man

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

  Alan Cumming

  People, Sometimes

  Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.32, Canongate Books

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• He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

  Publilius Syrus

  Grants, Asks

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• It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

  Plautus

  Done, Ethics, Morality

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• Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Tears, Stronger

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Great Expectations”, p.310, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By the favour of the heavens

  Horace

  Religious, Heaven

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• I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

  John Gielgud

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Science, Thinking

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• You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.

  Arthur Helps

  Gratitude, Way

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.

  Charles Babbage

  Christian, Pain, Kindness

  "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher". Book by Charles Babbage, 1864.

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• I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

  Richard Cobden

  Sweet, Blessing, Decay

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• I believe that the harm which Mill has done to the world by the passage in his book on Political Economy in which he favours the principle of Protection in young communities, has outweighed all the good which may have been caused by his other writings.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "Richard Cobden". Book by Richard Gowing, 1890.

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• I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Jobs, Vision, Quota

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• Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Believe, Naive, Ifs

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• Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Truth, Numbers, Vote

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address to The Holy See's International Diplomats, w2.vatican.va. March 18, 2006.

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• When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Injustice, Accepting, Threatened

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.207, Cambridge University Press

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• Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Political, Greek, Firsts

  Robin Lane Fox (2004). “Alexander The Great”, Penguin Group USA

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• An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

  William Henry Maule

  Liberty, Construction, Subjects

  Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.

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• There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

  Tim Lebbon

  Fun, Past, Air

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• I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.

  Mark Oliphant

  Country, Weapons, Plutonium

  "Portraits in Science". P. 31. Book by Ann Moyal, 1994.

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• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

  Robert Walpole

  Gratitude, Politics, Lively

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