You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAll 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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