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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  • We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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  • We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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  • What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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  • 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.
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  • When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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  • When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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  • When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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  • When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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  • You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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  • You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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  • You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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  • You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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  • You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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