We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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