black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Bering Girl Made Make Mistake Want

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

After Come Experience Material Wait You
In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Humble Ignorance Inconspicuously Knowledge Love Notice Outness People Simple
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bad Enough Future Know Past
All 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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Excite Experience Happy High Illuminate Infinity One Plane Rich Spirit Surround
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Great Love Men Perish Tragedy

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes