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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d2ba832 | I'm clever, I know it, and why shouldn't I acknowledge it?' While | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e149949 | It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had been swayed by what he thought he should do and never by what he wanted with his whole soul to do. He put that all aside now with a gesture of impatience. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9b3e85e | Philip knew very little about women, or he would have been aware that one should accept their most transparent lies. (442) | women | W Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham | |
| 4446989 | the mask of custom was torn off rudely, showing you the soul all raw. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| a74c144 | He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 1a3c8be | the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f0364b5 | E entao o diabo o conduziu a um monte muito alto e mostrou-lhe os reinos do mundo, dizendo: "Todas estas coisas te darei se, prostrado, me adorares". Mas Jesus respondeu: "Vai-te, Satanas". De acordo com o bom e simples sao Mateus, foi este o fim da historia. Mas nao foi, nao. O demonio era astucioso e de novo veio a Jesus: "Se aceitares a vergonha e a ignominia, a flagelacao, uma coroa de espinhos e a morte na cruz, salvaras a humanidade, .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 65204ec | There are people who cannot read Tom Jones. I am not thinking of those who never read anything but the newspapers and the illustrated weeklies, or of those who never read anything but detective stories; I am thinking of those who would not demure if you classed them as members of the intelligentsia, of those who read and re-read Pride and Prejudice with delight, Middlemarch with self-complacency, and The Golden Bowl with reverence. The chan.. | W Somerset Maugham | ||
| ea2841c | don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2bf0648 | Philip discovered that the greatest tragedy of life to these people was not separation or death, that was natural and the grief of it could be assuaged with tears, but loss of work. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 8e3d9dc | There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not born, whether he lived or ceased to live. Life was insignificant and death without consequence | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 7714b49 | How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well that this was the cruelest evil of them all, since it is Hope that lures mankind to endure its misery to the end." --W. Somerset Maugham; British author 1874-1965" | Robert Carlson | ||
| 660f08c | He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| eb062c4 | You want to taste sugar, you don't want to become sugar. What is individuality but the expression of our egoism? Until the soul has shed the last trace of that it cannot become one with the Absolute. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e51aa81 | she bombarded him with telegrams, asking him if he were ill and had received her letters; she said his silence made her dreadfully anxious. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| bb7dd03 | Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6365681 | The Kurgan people had to originate in Central Asia. | Bernard Sergent | ||
| 35f4085 | Of course schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average." Then" | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 51083cc | People say a lot of hard things about us brokers, but there are brokers and brokers. I don't want people to lose money, I want them to make it, and the way they act, most of them, you'd think their one object in life was to get rid of every cent they have. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e359c3e | One of her most amiable traits was that she was never affronted by the naked truth. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 5e621f9 | I don't think so. It was merely a physical attraction. You know, often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 32dbb1c | She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer. | w-somerset-maugham | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 64579b3 | He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. | w-somerset-maugham | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 476502a | A man marries to have a home, some to further their social and aristocratic standing, but also because they don't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing." W. Somerset Maugham" | Young | ||
| 64112a7 | Elliott, the costume too large now for his emaciated frame, looked like a chorus man in an early opera of Verdi's. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2e47330 | They had grown in three years and were now long-legged, skinny, vivacious little creatures, with little at present of their mother's beauty, but with nice manners and an insatiable curiosity. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6fd0d0e | I suppose only a Frenchman can appreciate to the full the grace and grandeur of Racine and the music of his verse, but even a foreigner, once he has accustomed himself to the periwigged formality of the style, can hardly fail to be moved by his passionate tenderness and by the nobility of his sentiment. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2f886a6 | I had myself been to Seville when I was twenty-three and I, too, had liked it. I liked its white, tortuous streets, its cathedral, and the wide-spreading plain of the Guadalquivir; but I liked also those Andalusian girls with their grace and their gaiety, with their dark shining eyes, the carnations in their hair stressing its blackness and by the contrast itself more vivid; I liked the rich color of their skins and the inviting sensuality .. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| d67da99 | He had a pompous manner and the false heartiness of a cheap politician, but his eyes were frightened and unhappy. He was never quite drunk and never quite sober. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f06fcba | It irks me that I cannot hope with any words of mine to give an idea of the pleasantness of his voice that invested even his most casual utterances with persuasiveness, or of the constant change in his expression, from grave to gently gay, from reflective to playful, that accompanied his thoughts like the ripple of a piano when the violins with a great sweep sing the several themes of a concerto. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 98b12fa | Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men among whom he lives, and finally man's relation | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 18d326b | The illusion which man has that his will is free is so deeply rooted that I am ready to accept it. I act as though I were a free agent. But when an action is performed it is clear that all the forces of the universe from all eternity conspired to cause it, and nothing I could do could have prevented it. It was inevitable. If it was good I can claim no merit; if it was bad I can accept no censure. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| de4e910 | Heaven knows, I'm the easiest woman in the world to get on with, but I will not be bullied by any man. After all, I have my self-respect to think of. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 16293d9 | El hombre encuentra siempre mas facil sacrificar su vida que aprender la tabla de multiplicar. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e879803 | contemned | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 77f244a | The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2656d5f | Ashenden admiraba la bondad, pero no le ofendia lo innoble. La gente le creia hombre sin corazon porque estudiaba mas que apreciaba a las personas a su alrededor, e incluso de aquellos a quienes sinceramente queria veia con claridad meridiana sus defectos y sus virtudes. Cuando alguien le gustaba, no era porque fuese ciego a sus faltas, las aceptaba con un tolerante encogerse de hombros; o porque les imaginara dotes que no poseian, y tratan.. | w. somerset maugham | ||
| 9236f6f | eschew | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 8b0faf0 | You must let bygones be bygones. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 61e961f | Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded expression and then all he tried to do was to make them as perfect as he knew how. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 46017db | There were legends in the Latin quarter of a time when students of different countries lived together intimately, but this was long since passed, and now the various nations were almost as much separated as in an Oriental city. At | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 116962c | it has this compensation (among, let us admit, not a few others), that sometimes it gives you the opportunity of seeing what was the outcome of certain events you had witnessed long ago. You had given up the hope of ever knowing what was the end of the story, and then, when you least expected it, it is handed to you on a platter. These | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| a21a243 | The Absolute. Reality. You can't say what it is; you can only say what it isn't. It's inexpressible. It's nowhere and everywhere. All things imply and depend upon it. It's not a person, it's not a thing, it's not a cause. It has no qualities. It transcends permanence and change; whole and part, finite and infinite. It is eternal because its completeness and perfection are unrelated to time. It is truth and freedom. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 31fa478 | I found something wonderfully satisfying in the notion that you can attain Reality by knowledge. In later ages the sages of India in recognition of human infirmity admitted that salvation may be won by the way of love and the way of works, but they never denied that the noblest way, though the hardest, is the way of knowledge, for its instrument is the most precious faculty of man, his reason. | W. Somerset Maugham |