It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFor 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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