The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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.
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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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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