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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Religion is... A conspiracy of... Priests to gain control over the people (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Women’s hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Failure makes people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art for art’s sake makes no more sense than gin for gin’s sake (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)