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..as the cosmos are in place, ...

..as the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life...

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Any society that values wealth...

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She's wonderful. Tell her I've...

She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.Ђќ Waddington, smiling, translated the question. 'She says I'm good.Ђќ 'As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,Ђќ Kitty mocked.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There in the mist, enormous, m...

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When I was young I had an elde...

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Culture is not just an ornamen...

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It's no use crying over spilt ...

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I write only when inspiration ...

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It must be a fault in me that ...

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I don't understand anything. L...

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered ...

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Look after your laundry, and y...

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It's always difficult to make ...

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Life is so largely controlled ...

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The essence of the beautiful i...

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There are many foolish people ...

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The officers saluted as she pa...

The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

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The tragedy of love is not dea...

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Almost all the people who've h...

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The fact that a great many peo...

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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