It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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