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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
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
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
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
— 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
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
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
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
— 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
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
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
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
— 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
It's only the boring who are bored.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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
The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
— 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
It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.
— 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
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
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 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
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
— 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
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
The fact is, I suppose, that it's not enough to have brains. The thing that counts is character.
— 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 takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
— W. Somerset Maugham
S the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life ...
— 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
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
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 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
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
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
— 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