W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 18

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• The end of culture is right living

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  Culture, Ends

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• I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

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  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2031, eBookIt.com

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• There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

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  Men, World Love, Trouble

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• So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

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  Strength, Strong, Wall

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

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• In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

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  Blessed, Heaven, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (1966). “A Maugham Twelve: Stories selected and with an introduction by Angus Wilson”

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• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

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  Brother, Book, Single Life

  "Newsweek" Magazine, May 23, 1960.

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• He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

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  Delight, World, Want

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• There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

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  Strong, Writing, Sacrifice

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

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• The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

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  Writing, Ideas, Brain

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• This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

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  Morning, Pain, Heart

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1854, eBookIt.com

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• He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

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  Heart, Blood, One Day

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.416, Diversion Books

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• I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

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  Religious, Common Sense, Common

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• It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

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  Asking, Reason, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Of Human Bondage”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

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  Character, Yield, Harmony

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

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• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

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  Christian, Soul, Atheism

  "A Writer's Notebook". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1949.

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

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  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

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  Men, Years, Purple

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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.

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  Order, Evil, Atheism

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

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• The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

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  Thinking, Doe, May

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• We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

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  God, Jobs, Believe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.275, Random House

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• Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

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  Country, Travel, Coffee

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• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

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  Power, Land, Self Improvement

  Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, www.dartmouth.edu. June 17, 1825.

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• The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

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  Done, Dice, Reader

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• Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

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  Song, Dull, Wit

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.15, Random House

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• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

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  Community, Individuality, Ethics

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1292, eBookIt.com

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