if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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