Favour Quotes

• I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Humility, Rewards, Hassan

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• Fortune favours the bold.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Luck, Fortune

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• A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

  Edward Sapir

  Sacrifice, Demand, Facts

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.112, Univ of California Press

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• Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

  Lactantius

  Savages, Mars, Venus

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.40, Jazzybee Verlag

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• His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Religious, Home

  Letter to Lionel Walter, Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov. 1917. Known as the "Balfour Declaration."

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• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  Fran Drescher

  Doctors, Odds, Reports

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• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Friday, Agreement, Years

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

  Francesca Annis

  Giving, Support, Goes On

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• I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

  James Callaghan

  Teenage

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• For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

  Lionel Blue

  Years, Republic, Kingdoms

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• Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

  Seneca the Younger

  Speak, Silent

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• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Hope, Paving The Way, Overwhelming

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

  Alan Bennett

  Business, Expression, Free Expression

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

  Andre Agassi

  Baby, Thinking, Bucks

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• I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Merton Miller

  Successful, Investing, Information

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• Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.

  Henry Fielding

  Honesty, Rogues, Fool

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Ambition

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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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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Emotional, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.31, Bertrand Russell

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• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

  H. G. Wells

  Believe, Men, Order

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• 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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• I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

  John Bolton

  Iraq, Democracy

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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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