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W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Now the answer... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death’s own hand is warmer than my own. I don’t wish to live any longer (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
D’you call life a bad job? Never! We’ve had our ups and downs, we’ve had our struggles, we’ve always been poor, but it’s been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
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 (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Perhaps the most important use of money - it saves time. Life is so short, and there’s so much to do, one can’t afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
When a man’s in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman’s in love she doesn’t care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)
You’ve been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.’ Well, I know I’m not a Christian and I’m beginning to doubt whether I’m a gentleman,’ said Philip (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)
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance (W Somerset Maugham Quotes)