Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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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.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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