black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Age Country Different Evening Freedom Good Old Pleasant Thing Tranquility Two Youth
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Mediocre Only
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Character Cruel Failure Improve Make Man People Sucess
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Belief Change Forever Good Life New Will
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Chance Conduct Control Improvisation Largely Life Perpetual
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Boundless Intoxicate Space

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes