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He had heard people speak cont...

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The ideal has many names, and ...

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

One cannot find peace in work ...

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Well, you know when people are...

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The important thing was to lov...

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

self-control might be as passi...

self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I prefer a loose woman to a se...

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Life is really very fantastic,...

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

People are always a little dis...

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The worst of having so much ta...

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Never pause unless you have a ...

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

From the earliest time the old...

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She was a fool and he knew it ...

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If a man hasn't what's necessa...

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

How can I be reasonable? To me...

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

One can be very much in love w...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I know that you're selfish, se...

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She could not admit but that h...

She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Kant thought things, not becau...

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

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

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