Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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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