It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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.
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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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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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