139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 1. A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that ...
- 2. A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he ...
- 3. A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifice ...
- 4. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in ...
- 5. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba ...
- 6. Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and ...
- 7. Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
- 8. Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and wo ...
- 9. Art, he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, ...
- 10. At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- 11. Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is ...
- 12. Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
- 13. Common sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made o ...
- 14. Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made o ...
- 15. D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always ...
- 16. Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead beca ...
- 17. Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i ...
- 18. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- 19. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a ...
- 20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate ...
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