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Some of us look for the Way in...

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Love is what happens to men an...

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The passing moment is all we c...

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You cannot write unless you wr...

You cannot write unless you write much.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It does the heart good to look...

It does the heart good to look at you.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The best style is the style yo...

The best style is the style you don't notice.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Sometimes a man hits upon a pl...

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

We learn resignation not by ou...

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When things are at their worst...

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is an illusion that youth i...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Remember that it is nothing to...

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The future will one day be the...

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Tolerance is only another name...

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Genius is talent provided with...

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She says it's really not very ...

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I'm afraid you've thought me a...

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A bird in the hand was worth t...

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You're beginning to dislike me...

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Vaguely, as when you are study...

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Was it necessary to tell me th...

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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