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Think Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
- I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we…
- I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
- I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
- Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
- When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and…
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
- I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It…
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can…
- When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they…
- I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
- 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…
- There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself…
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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