| 30 Famous Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
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“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
Love Quotes |
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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.”
Perfection Quotes |
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“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Quotes Quotes |
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“You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”
Adultery Quotes |
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“There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.”
Evil Quotes |
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“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
Excess Quotes |
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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.”
Suffering Quotes |
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“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
Tradition Quotes |
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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.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.”
All about love Quotes |
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“I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.”
Books and reading Quotes |
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“Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.”
Common sense Quotes |
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“The end of culture is right living.”
Culture Quotes |
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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
Death Quotes |
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“The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.”
Dress Quotes |
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“The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”
Habit Quotes |
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
Humor Quotes |
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“Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.”
Money Quotes |
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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Perspective Quotes |
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
Perspective Quotes |
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“Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Psychological subjects Quotes |
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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