The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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