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Me Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for…
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
- It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
- The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
- You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father…
- The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change…
- It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
- I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
- You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
- Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear,…
- How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that…
- It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
- I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
- Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though…
- You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
- Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale