Favours Quotes

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Great, Gratitude, Blessings

Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.
James Lovelock

Good, Science, Done

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
Sloane Crosley

Power, Parenting, Nothing

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life, Privileges

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.
Ryan Kwanten

Listen, Tend, Asks

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Terry Eagleton

Humanity, Indulge

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun

Free, Everybody, Speech

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty, Win, Different

When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
Agnes Macphail

Men, Down, Around

If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.
Clive Anderson

Lost, Emotions, Television

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
Jacques Delors

Society, American, Composed

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip Massinger

Time, Supported, Frequent

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