I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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