W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 8

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• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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  Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.26, Random House

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• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

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  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

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  Art, Talent, Pursuit

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.539, Diversion Books

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• We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

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  Weakness

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.5, Random House

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• The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

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  Surprise, Traveler

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

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  Men, Things In Life, Pleasure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.291, Diversion Books

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• The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

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  Women, Firsts, Duty

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• When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

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  High School, Age, Emotion

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• 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.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.195, Random House

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• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

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  Acceptance, World, Blame

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com

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• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

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  Way, Sentimental, Sentiments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

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  God, Church, Fool

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1732, eBookIt.com

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• Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

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  Work, Believe, Expected

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.70, Random House

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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  Apples, Long, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

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  Sight, Bored, World

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

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  Art, Morality, Action

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals.

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  Genius, Talent, Ideals

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• 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.

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  Two, Religion, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

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  Art, Travel, Adventure

  "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.

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• You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

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  Pursue

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

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  Rivers, Flow, Steps

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• Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

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  Loss, Littles, Painful

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• Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

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  Years, Advice, Firsts

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• I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

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  Fool, Bigger

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.60, Random House

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• For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

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  Love Is, Men, Interesting

  W. Somerset Maugham (1919). “The Moon and Sixpence”

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