If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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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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