If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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