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World 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…
- If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
- 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.
- ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
- I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
- 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…
- 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…
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise…
- The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
- 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…
- Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
- I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
- 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…
- Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was…
- Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach