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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life’s ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It’s a relief then to deal with a man who isn’t quite so delightful but a little more sincere (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
A man ought to work. That’s what he’s here for. That’s how he contributes to the welfare of the community (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I like manual labor. Whenever I’ve got waterlogged with study, I’ve taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one’s power of appreciation persists (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It’s always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there’s no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I don’t think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I’ve met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and God himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)