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Out Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we…
- The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon…
- Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we…
- Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- 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…
- First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
- 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…
- The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
- There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is…
- When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and…
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only…
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction…
- 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…
- Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
- Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
- 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…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
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