As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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 terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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