To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTradition is a guide and not a jailer.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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 tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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