It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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