Famous quotes containing the word confer:
“To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)