If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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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 great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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