Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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