If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThrow 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 …
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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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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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The 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.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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