Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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 nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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