I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMPeople talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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