- 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 »
- Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham »
- By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. W. Somerset Maugham »
- D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W. Somerset Maugham »
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W. Somerset Maugham »
- I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- 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 »
- I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. W. Somerset Maugham »
- I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. W. Somerset Maugham »
- If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I. W. Somerset Maugham »
- If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham »
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Life isn't long enough for love and art. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham »
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham »
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel. W. Somerset Maugham »
- The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham »
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W. Somerset Maugham »
- The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you. W. Somerset Maugham »
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W. Somerset Maugham »
- The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. W. Somerset Maugham »
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham »
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham »
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Tolerance is another word for indifference. W. Somerset Maugham »
- Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham »
- We do not write because we want to we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham »
- We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. W. Somerset Maugham »
- 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 »
- When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W. Somerset Maugham »
- When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. W. Somerset Maugham »
- When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham »
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