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

  Frank Wedekind

  Men, Made

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Grants, Asks

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

  John Gielgud

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• By the favour of the heavens

  Horace

  Religious, Heaven

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

  Teresa of Avila

  Order, Joy, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.31, Penguin UK

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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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• All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.

  Richard Summerbell

  Sex, Disease, Way

  "The Body Politic" (magazine), June 1983.

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• The scrum and the tackle are the two really contentious areas of the game. If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

  Alan Lewis

  Games, Two, Rugby

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

  James Burgh

  Denial, May, Grants

  James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

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• I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

  Ken Livingstone

  Privilege

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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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• It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

  Billy Bragg

  Powerful, Dirty, Shining

  "End of the peer show" by Jonathan Freedland, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2004.

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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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• 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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