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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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