Famous quotes containing the word thinks:
“The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)