Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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