The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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