I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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