I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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