Quotes by William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

English writer

Lived from: 1874 - 1965

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 january 1874 Died: 16 december 1965

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  • Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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  • Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
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  • I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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  • I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God
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  • 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.
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  • I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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  • I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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  • If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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  • 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.
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  • If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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  • It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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  • It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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  • It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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  • It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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  • It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
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  • It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
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  • It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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  • It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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  • It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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  • It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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