I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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