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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDon’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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