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Nothing Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
- The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim…
- I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
- 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…
- 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…
- An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has…
- No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes…
- 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…
- 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…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of…
- I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- 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…
- He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
- This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
- I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be…
- When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less…
- Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's…
- Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when…
- 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…
- Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear,…
- It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack…
- I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong