black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

W. Somerset Maugham

Related Topics

Everything Life Love Plesant Realize Reasonable Whole You

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anxiety Constant Decade Livelihood Mena Nothing
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Give Head Opinion Organ Place Right Thoroughly
You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Demand Desire Other Preposterous Sacrifice Should Unselfishness
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Belief Common Contrary Excercise Grow Imagination Mature More Powerful Young
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Book Important Meaning Only Thing You
But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Character Chosen Creature Death Fellow Grow Influence Live Men Pecualr Perhaps Realize Remarkable Strength Sweetness
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bad Enough Future Know Past
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Cease Concern Death Effect Exist Happen Living
They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Defect Friend Know Merit Rather
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Apple Country Hollywood Long Make Occasionally One Peach Women
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Belongs Feel Man Mysteriously Place Sometimes

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes