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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You’re beginning to dislike me, aren’t you? Well, dislike me. It doesn’t make any difference to me now (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn’t be as overpopulated as it is now (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation’s character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you’re in love with her. Then she’s worth all she costs you (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)