In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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