I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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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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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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