152 Quotes About Favour

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

I have never understood why so many gardeners favour straight lines and narrow, regulated borders; perhaps they think wildness could work only in a larger space.

At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

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.