Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass."
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Favour
142 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received."
Margaret Thatcher
Politician
"For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions."
Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty."
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"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."
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"Fortune favours the bold."
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"It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes."
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"Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries."
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"Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour."
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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."
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"Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes."
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"He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed"
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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."
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"Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills."
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"Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that."
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"What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice."
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"The reasons for legal intervention in favour of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves and victims of the most brutal part of mankind - the lower animals."
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"Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality."
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"Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour."
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"I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge."
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"Did you ever notice that everyone in favour of birth control has already been born ?"
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"Out of her favour, where I am in love."
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"In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford."
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"You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies."
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