Top 127 Favours Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

Chance favours the trained mind.

I like playing on the right because it favours me as it is my natural side.

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

To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given, - Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.

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

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren't naive.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

You don't do anybody any favours by being less than you are.

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

Spoiling my ballot paper is the only way I can see of stripping the system of legitimacy, shaking it up, and reforming it so that it favours citizens.

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Fortune favours the bold.

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

Fortune favours the audacious.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

It has more repercussion when the referee favours us than when we are harmed.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.

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

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

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.

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

I think with girls you have a real responsibility in terms of how you discuss the physical. Talking about your looks or body in a derogatory way doesn't do them any favours.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

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.

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

I trade musical favours like cattle. I can't remember the last time I did a remix for actual money. For me, I try and get a good swap.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.

A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.