She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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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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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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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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