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Common-sense appears to be onl...

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

For if the proper study of man...

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A man who is a politician at f...

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is unfair to expect a polit...

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

An art is only great and signi...

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If truth is a value it is beca...

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Love is not always blind and t...

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When a man's in love, he at on...

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The spirit is often most free ...

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Clearly much that seemed valid...

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

In religion above all things t...

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There's nothing the world love...

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

So long as some are strong and...

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

In heaven, when the blessed us...

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I knew that suffering did not ...

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When she liked anyone it was q...

When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

But what is criticism? Critici...

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A man filled with meat turns h...

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Truth is not only stranger tha...

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The inclination to digress is ...

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....