W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

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• If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

  

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

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• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

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• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

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• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

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• Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.

  

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• Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

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• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

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• I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

  

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• People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.

  

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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

  

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• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

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• I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.

  

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• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

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• I think there are a lot of chefs in D.C. who have made D.C. what it is today. I am very respectful to them. I'm very admiring of what they've done.

  

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• More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

  

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• The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

  

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• That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

  

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. – I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world: – "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.

  

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• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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