If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFor 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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 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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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.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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