A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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