Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old W. Somerset Maugham quotes, W. Somerset Maugham sayings, and W. Somerset Maugham proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.W. Somerset Maugham
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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.W. Somerset Maugham
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.W. Somerset Maugham
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.W. Somerset Maugham
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Punctuality is a compliment you pay to the intelligent and a rebuke you pay to the stupid.W. Somerset Maugham
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No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.W. Somerset Maugham
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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.W. Somerset Maugham
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.W. Somerset Maugham
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.W. Somerset Maugham
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Is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.W. Somerset Maugham
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.W. Somerset Maugham
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.W. Somerset Maugham
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.W. Somerset Maugham
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.W. Somerset Maugham
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.W. Somerset Maugham
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Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.W. Somerset Maugham
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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.W. Somerset Maugham
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.W. Somerset Maugham
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.W. Somerset Maugham
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.W. Somerset Maugham
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.W. Somerset Maugham
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.W. Somerset Maugham
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The tragedy of love is indifference.W. Somerset Maugham
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.W. Somerset Maugham
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.W. Somerset Maugham
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.W. Somerset Maugham
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.W. Somerset Maugham
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.W. Somerset Maugham
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The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.W. Somerset Maugham
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.W. Somerset Maugham