People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.


Somerset Maugham

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persis...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies a...
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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dep...
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the comm...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
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It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get i...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. H...
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Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
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We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a ba...
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You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri...
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large wi...
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actuall...
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the wo...
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing...
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ...
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always...
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and wo...
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're ...
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o...
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ...
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty...
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man w...
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As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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