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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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