A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSimplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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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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