W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 11

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• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

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  Funny, Book, Reading

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• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

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  Art, May, Clique

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

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• Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

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  Swimming, People, Mediocre

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• I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

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  Regret, Struggle, Hands

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• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

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  Too Late, Mediocrity, Doe

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

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• You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

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  Dislike Me, Differences, Wells

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.75, Random House

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• She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

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  Dirty, Men, Pigs

  "Altogether: Being the collected stories of W. Somerset Maugham (Rain)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1934.

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• The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

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  Misery, Mood, Things To Do

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.229, Random House

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• I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

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  Death, Tonight, Baghdad

  Sheppey act 3 (1933)

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• She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

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  Beautiful, Men, Hands

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• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

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  Men, Garden, Eden

  W. Somerset Maugham (2002). “The Trembling of a Leaf”, p.84, Dixon Price Pub

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• An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

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  Lying, Book, Writing

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• Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

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  Kindness, Grace, Quality

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

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• She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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  Sarcastic, Belief, Human Bondage

  "The Creative Impulse". Harper's Bazar, August 1926.

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• By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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  Love, Men, Long

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• Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

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  Kindness, Goodness, Loving Kindness

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

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• It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Reason

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• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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  Life, Nature, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

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• I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

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  Self, Epilepsy, Feet

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• It does the heart good to look at you.

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  Heart, Looks, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.127, Random House

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• He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

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  Gestures, Heroic, Easy

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1809, eBookIt.com

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• A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

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  Women, Good Woman, Wicked

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.26, Random House

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• I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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  Wise, Men, Two

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 2 (1919)

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• A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.

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  Writing

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• There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

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  Clever, Men, Thinking

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