I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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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.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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