W. Somerset Maugham - Man Quotes

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Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

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There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her... but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

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He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague. He was profoundly troubled. He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightning on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion; he seemed to see that 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.

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She's wonderful. Tell her I've never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you. Waddington, smiling, translated the question. She says I'm good. As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue, Kitty mocked.

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After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

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I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul.

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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

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I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man nothing but instant flight could save him.

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