If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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