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In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.
— Sun Tzu
To photograph is to confer importance.
— Susan Sontag
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.
— Alexander Lebedev
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
— Mark Lawson
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
— Mark Twain
Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
The ultimate blessing that God can confer on a man is the possession of a good and pious wife.
— Martin Luther
To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . .
— Will Durant
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
— Charles Caleb Colton
His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
— William Ellery Channing
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else.
— Henry Hazlitt
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
— Publilius Syrus
We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
— Bill Bryson
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
— Anthony Trollope
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
— Philip Sidney
It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.
— William Wordsworth
It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
— William Shakespeare
Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be.
— Elizabeth Kelly
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
— Peter F. Drucker
It is a law, of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us.
— Pierre Corneille
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.
— Eric Hoffer
Professor McGonagall: Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.
— J.K. Rowling
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
— John Churton Collins
It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?
— Jean De La Bruyere
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.
— Carl Jung
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
— Mason Cooley