Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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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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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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