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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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 great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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