W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
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• We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

  

  Imogen Poots
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  • Mom
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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
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• When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
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  • Hand

• Free love sounds great.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Great
  • Love
  • Free

• And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Love
  • See
  • Shopping

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Men
  • Small

• I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Age

• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Picture

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Legacy

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Listening

• I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Thing

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.

  

  Neil Abramson
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Purpose

• But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.

  

  Karen Tayleur
  • World
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

  

  FKA twigs
  • School
  • Single
  • Fashion

• Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Responsibility

• The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women