There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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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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 mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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