W. Somerset Maugham's Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham's Quotes 71

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and...

The crown of literature is poetry.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but...

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of...

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to...

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more...

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than...

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that...

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and...

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing...

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,...

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid...

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to...

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to...

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a...

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled...

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what...

I write only when Inspirational strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning...

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole...

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