The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMif you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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