When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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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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