Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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