black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes