There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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