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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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