For 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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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