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.
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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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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