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We are like people living in a...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It might be that to surrender ...

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You can never know enough abou...

You can never know enough about your characters

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Follow your inclinations with ...

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The life force is vigorous. Th...

The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Life wouldn't be worth living ...

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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I wish I could make you see ho...

I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I daresay one profits more by ...

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The essential element of love ...

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is pleasure that lurks in t...

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myse

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

He found that it was easy to m...

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I am told that today rather mo...

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. 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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It was such a beautiful day I ...

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A state of reverie does not av...

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

...I couldn't but surmise that...

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It needs a good deal of philos...

It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I am told that today rather mo...

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is only one thing about ...

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I now, weak, old, diseased, po...

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The great trues are too import...

The great trues are too important to be new.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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