What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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