Consent-Refusal

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favour wish that he might have done you a greater one. (Russell Lynes)

To refuse and to give tardily is all the same. (Proverb)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Silence gives consent. (Oliver Goldsmith)

A little still she strove, and much repented, and whispering 'I will ne'er consent' - consented. (Byron)

My poverty, but not my will, consents. (Shakespeare)

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office. (Benjamin Franklin)