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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
When married people don’t get on they can separate, but if they’re not married it’s impossible. It’s a tie that only death can sever (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In civilized communities men’s idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I learnt that men were moved by a savage egoism, that love was only the dirty trick nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is no cruelty greater than a woman’s to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Because women can do nothing except love, they’ve given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it’s the whole of life. It’s an insignificant part (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)