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 MAUGHAMIt 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 MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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 MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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 MAUGHAMDeath 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 MAUGHAMThere are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe 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 MAUGHAMIf you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI 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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