She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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