Quotes of W. Somerset Maugham

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Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

- W. Somerset Maugham

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“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. ”

- Anonymous

“ Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ Our own selfesteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] ”

- Taylor Swift

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Life is tough, darling, but so are you. ”

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ”

- Unknown

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky