When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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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.
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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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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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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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