W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• 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)

• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Race, Giving

  The Summing Up

• 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 have no such influence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hate, People, Treasure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1396, eBookIt.com

• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Nature, Men, Errors

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 20), 1949.

• You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mean, Long, Razors

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.305, Random House

• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Names, Common Sense

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