It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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