The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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