If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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