black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
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 MAUGHAM

Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Clothes Dress Man never Notice
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes