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.
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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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