Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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