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 MAUGHAMAs lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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