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It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX
— W. Somerset Maugham
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
— W. Somerset Maugham
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.
— W. Somerset Maugham
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
— W. Somerset Maugham
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
— W. Somerset Maugham
She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
— W. Somerset Maugham
You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.
— W. Somerset Maugham
How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes of one's own than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice.
— W. Somerset Maugham
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
— W. Somerset Maugham
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left.
— W. Somerset Maugham
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
— W. Somerset Maugham
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit of it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
— W. Somerset Maugham
And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life. — W. Somerset Maugham
They threw this eager vitality of theirs into a vehement striving after the ineffable.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
— W. Somerset Maugham
His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
— W. Somerset Maugham
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It
— W. Somerset Maugham
Life's hell anyway, but if there is any fun to be got out of it, you're only a god-damn fool if you don't get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Have some whiskey,there's nothing like it for clearing the head. You must expect to be thick-witted if you insist upon drinking beer.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
— W. Somerset Maugham
So now what?''Well, if you insist on marrying me ... But it's an awful risk we're taking!'
'Darling, that's what life's for - to take risks. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's only the boring who are bored.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
— W. Somerset Maugham
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
— W. Somerset Maugham
But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it's only to-day that one of them broke the news to us.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
— W. Somerset Maugham
What do you value in life then?""I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. Beauty, truth, and goodness. — W. Somerset Maugham
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The great trues are too important to be new.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned
— W. Somerset Maugham
She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think they decide matters for themselves.
— W. Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren't perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?""No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham
Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then?
— W. Somerset Maugham
No one any good you be sure,' said Mrs. Kemp. 'I can't swaller these new people as are comin' in; the street ain't wot it was when I fust come.' When
— W. Somerset Maugham
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
— W. Somerset Maugham
S the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life ...
— W. Somerset Maugham
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's a long, arduous road he's starting to travel, but it may be that at the end of it he'll find what's he's seeking.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
— W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - SOMERSET MAUGHAM
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
The fact is, I suppose, that it's not enough to have brains. The thing that counts is character.
— W. Somerset Maugham
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
— W. Somerset Maugham
And he loved her suddenly because she loved him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The Magus,the sorcerer, the alchemist, are seized with the fascination of the unknown; and they desire a greatness that is inaccessible to mankind.
— W. Somerset Maugham
What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
— W. Somerset Maugham
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance. There
— W. Somerset Maugham
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
— W. Somerset Maugham