It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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