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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood... Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one’s own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody’s else advice (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It may be that if I lead the life I’ve planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)