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 MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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I 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.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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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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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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