Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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