W. Somerset Maugham
Quotations
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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“The crown of literature is poetry.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“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.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. – W. Somerset Maugham
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