W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 2

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• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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  Writing, Real Talk, Story Writers

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• You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

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  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, World

  "The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts". Play by W. Somerset Maugham, 1921.

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• Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

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  Husband, Firsts, Good Husband

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• The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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  Love, Life, Important

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.760, The Floating Press

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• If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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  Women, Men, Faults

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• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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  Life, Sex, Gay

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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  Food, Breakfast, Want

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• A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

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  Love, Sacrifice, Men

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 41

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• I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

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  Mean, Difficult

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.32, Random House

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• Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

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  Politics, Wealth, Wells

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• Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

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  Women, Heart, Two

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• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Of Human Bondage (1915) ch. 51

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• When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

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  Women, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

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  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

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  Life, Friendship, Time

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

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

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  Men, Clothes, Well Dressed

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• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

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  Kindness, People, Young

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

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• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

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  Children, Humble, Humility

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• There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

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  Mean, Anxiety, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.342, Diversion Books

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• All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

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  Writing, Matter, Story Writers

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• Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

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  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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• Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

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  Mistake, Waiting, Matter

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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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• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Science

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