W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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 a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Eye

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.446, Diversion Books

• 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 will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

• You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Happiness, Eye, Giving

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.65, Random House

• It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Deception, Independence

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 14 (1919)

• When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Vanity, Judging

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humor, Eye, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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