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

There are 103 quotes for the author W. Somerset Maugham

Quotations 41 to 60 of 103 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Writing is the supreme solace.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.

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.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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