Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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