Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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