They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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