Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAll the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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