He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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W. Somerset Maugham148 quotes“He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.”
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham 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.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset MaughamW. Somerset Maugham 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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