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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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