Favor

Famous quotes containing the word favor:

“Look with favor on a bold enterprise.”
—Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro] (70–19 B.C.)

“My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Lips that sealed up the sense from gnawing time
Now beg the favor with a graveyard grin.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)