Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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