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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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