If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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