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W. Somerset Maugham (Writer)

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
— W. Somerset Maugham mother
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
— W. Somerset Maugham life
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 time
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge againstbecause he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
— W. Somerset Maugham humour
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
— W. Somerset Maugham love
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
— W. Somerset Maugham people
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
— W. Somerset Maugham war
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
— W. Somerset Maugham people
It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: "I don't know."
— W. Somerset Maugham life
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
— W. Somerset Maugham life
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
— W. Somerset Maugham time
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
— W. Somerset Maugham art
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…
— W. Somerset Maugham service
"You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man."
— W. Somerset Maugham man
Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it…
— W. Somerset Maugham life
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
— W. Somerset Maugham good
After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
— W. Somerset Maugham sex
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
— W. Somerset Maugham sacrifice
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
— W. Somerset Maugham world
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
— W. Somerset Maugham love
It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
— W. Somerset Maugham love
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
— W. Somerset Maugham risk
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham man
I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
— W. Somerset Maugham men
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
— W Somerset Maugham love
I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live it now.
— W Somerset Maugham life

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