Patronage Quotes
Patronage Quote of the day
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
Get the confidence of the public and you will have no difficulty in getting their patronage.
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
I've always felt that any establishment that doesn't welcome me with open arms doesn't deserve my patronage.
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.
Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
I used to ask myself, ‘Sergei, would you rather spend your money on drink or women?’ and thanks to the club, I spend it on both and am called a patron of the arts.
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.