A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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