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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I’m only twenty-five. If I’ve made a mistake I have time to correct it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of ‘natural causes’ (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action (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)
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 Quotes)
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (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)
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. (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)
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. (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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories. (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)
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)
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. (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)
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)