You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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.
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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