Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI´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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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