Nature Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

21 Nature quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham’s take on the outdoors balances keen observation with a wry smile, turning ordinary moments into memorable reflections. His style makes each quote feel like a witty anecdote shared over a campfire.

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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water…

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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray…

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“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of…

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“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper…

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Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us,…

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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.…

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Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass…

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have…

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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part…

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“The first time he talked in that way he said something that I've never forgotten, because it horrified me; he said that…

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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes…

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“What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?" "To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was…

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“According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol…

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“Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer,” said Lawson. “What has nature got to do with it? No…

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“The best I can suggest is that when the Absolute manifested itself in the world evil was the natural correlation of good.…

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“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression…

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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable…

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“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment…

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“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book…

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

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“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

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“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I…

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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

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“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all…

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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

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If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”

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“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”

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“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

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