A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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