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Quotes By author - Starting with W - W. Somerset Maugham

There are 103 quotes for the author W. Somerset Maugham

Quotations 1 to 20 of 103 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Subject: Money

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.
Subject: Love & Romance
Work: The Moon and Sixpence

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
Subject: Love & Romance

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Subject: Quotations

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.
Subject: Death

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Subject: Habits Moderation

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Subject: Death

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Subject: Money

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
Subject: Character
Work: The Moon and Sixpence

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
Subject: Writing

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Subject: Writing

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
Subject: Community

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
Subject: Art

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Subject: Food
Work:

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Subject: Money

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Subject: Criticism

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
Subject: Age

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
Subject: Criticism

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.
Subject: Books

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Subject: Sports & Competition

Quotations 1 to 20 of 103
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