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Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common b ... Read Full Quote
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by ... Read Full Quote
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected ... Read Full Quote
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin ... Read Full Quote
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man ... Read Full Quote
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but t ... Read Full Quote
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upo ... Read Full Quote
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to y ... Read Full Quote
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this ... Read Full Quote
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - ... Read Full Quote
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept a ... Read Full Quote
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, h ... Read Full Quote
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I lov ... Read Full Quote
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good ... Read Full Quote
Tolerance is another word for indifference. ... Read Full Quote
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderat ... Read Full Quote
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe ... Read Full Quote
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will ... Read Full Quote
We know our friends by their defects rather than by the ... Read Full Quote
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of ... Read Full Quote
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not ... Read Full Quote
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the ... Read Full Quote
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of chara ... Read Full Quote
The common idea that success spoils people by making th ... Read Full Quote
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunat ... Read Full Quote
It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get ... Read Full Quote
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too wel ... Read Full Quote
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a service ... Read Full Quote
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ... Read Full Quote
We do not write because we want to we write because we ... Read Full Quote
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ... Read Full Quote
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes of ... Read Full Quote
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of t ... Read Full Quote
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wo ... Read Full Quote
I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the meas ... Read Full Quote
D'you call life a bad job Never We've had our ups and d ... Read Full Quote
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policem ... Read Full Quote
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beau ... Read Full Quote
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have inven ... Read Full Quote
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, ... Read Full Quote
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. ... Read Full Quote
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to y ... Read Full Quote
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself b ... Read Full Quote
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it i ... Read Full Quote
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved ... Read Full Quote
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to prese ... Read Full Quote
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot ma ... Read Full Quote
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick an ... Read Full Quote
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the fut ... Read Full Quote
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they ... Read Full Quote
When things are at their worst I find something always ... Read Full Quote
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters ... Read Full Quote
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...bu ... Read Full Quote
Life isn't long enough for love and art. ... Read Full Quote
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, ... Read Full Quote