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

There are 103 quotes for the author W. Somerset Maugham

Quotations 21 to 40 of 103 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
Subject: Miscellaneous
Source: Our Betters", 1923

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
Subject: Miscellaneous

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

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