Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBut it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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