W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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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.

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  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

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  Freedom, Patriotic, Libertarian Party

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

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• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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  Change, Enjoy It While It Lasts, Delight

  "The Razor's Edge". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

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• The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

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  Believe, People, Guarantees

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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  Life, Book, Reading

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

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• The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

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  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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• The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

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  Wisdom, Regret, Life Is

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• It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

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  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.

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  Humble, Ignorance, Fate

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1377, eBookIt.com

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

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  Past, Would Be, Enough

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• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

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  Independent, Dignity Of Work, Wealth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

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  Education, Book, Reading

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• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

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  Freedom, Things In Life, Two

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.130, Diversion Books

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• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

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  Use, Milk, Cry

  "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.

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• Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

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  Worried, Human Bondage, Worst

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1876, eBookIt.com

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• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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  Motivational, Change, Believe

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• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

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  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

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  Men, Clothes, Well Dressed

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• Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

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  Men, Association, Sometimes

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com

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