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Perhaps Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end…
- Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
- 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…
- What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to…
- Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we…
- They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun