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Tag Name "Favour" (228)

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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
Bertrand Russell
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
Jacques Delors
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I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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
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We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
Douglas Hurd
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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
Lionel Shriver
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If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Morrissey
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Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
Andre Maurois
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If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.
Michel de Montaigne
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Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.
James A.C. Brown
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He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch
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