A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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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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