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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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