W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 19

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• You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

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  Learning, Finals, Examination

  Of Human Bondage Ch. LIV

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• It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

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  Fool, Reader, Unsafe

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1954.

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• We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

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  Baby, Long, Eras

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.278, Random House

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• Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

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  Littles, Favour

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• The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

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  Character, Personality, Culture

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• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

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  Drinking, Drunk, Sober

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• The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

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  People, Acting, Elements

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• She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

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  Differences, Fool, Made

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• I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

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  Believe, Giving, Desire

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

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  Good Night, Amy, Able

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

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  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

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  Society, Politics, Politician

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

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  Actors, Know How, Knows

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.106, Random House

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• The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

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  Animal, Intelligent, Intellectual

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

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• Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

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  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

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  Men, Light, Air

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• I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

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  Men, Thinking, Self

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• When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

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  Friendship, Ties, People

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• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

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  Wine, Sunset, Rome

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• A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

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  Love, Women, Sacrifice

  Circle (1921) act 3

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• I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

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  Funny, Humorous, Ambition

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• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

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  Sublime, Brain, Consciousness

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• The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

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  Love, Believe, Men

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• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

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  People, Criticism, Want

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• Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

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  Men, Evil, Needs

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

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