It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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 essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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.
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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.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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