They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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