black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
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’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Himself Let Love Loved One
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Act Convention Country Democratic Ground Like Nation Personality Prefer Worst
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Country Life Place
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Impropriety Soul Wit
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes