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Man Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
- The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of…
- Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
- Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
- The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables…
- By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
- Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
- 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…
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- 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…
- The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
- A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
- On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
- There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type…
- For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of…
- A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be…
- Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
- When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms…
- There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in…
- It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
- No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
- Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle