Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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