There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOh, 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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