If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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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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