I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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