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Beautiful Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- We do not write as we want, but as we can.
- We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
- The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one…
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
- I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which…
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
- She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m…
- People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing…
- The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort…
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman