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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  • Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
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  • Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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  • Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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  • Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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  • Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
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  • Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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  • Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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  • Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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  • Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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  • Much pessimism is caused by ascribing to others the feelings you would feel if you were in their place.
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  • No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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  • Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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  • Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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  • Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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  • People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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  • People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
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  • People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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  • Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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  • 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.
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  • Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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