W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 6

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• Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

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  Men, Atheism, Answers

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• Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

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  Community, Desire, Comfort

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

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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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  Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

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• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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  Inspirational, Life, Character

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17

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• Impropriety is the soul of wit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 4

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• Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

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  Hate, People, Treasure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1396, eBookIt.com

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

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  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  Summing Up (1938) p. 187

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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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  Laughter, Humor, People

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• One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

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  Women, Wish, Human Bondage

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• Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

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  Motivational, Thought Provoking, Soul

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• How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

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  Break Up, Broken Heart, Breakup

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.70, Random House

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• The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

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  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

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• Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

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  Home, Men, Land

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

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• For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

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  Atheist, Believe, Common Sense

  "The Summing Up".

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• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.34, Random House

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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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  Stress, Men, Weak Man

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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• You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

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  Happiness, Eye, Giving

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.65, Random House

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• I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

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  Sex, Men, Mind

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.318, Random House

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• It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

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  Writing, Speech, Common

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

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• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

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  Acceptance, World, Blame

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com

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• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

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  Anger, Political, World

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1948.

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• It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

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  Pain, Men, Mind

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.131, Random House

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• It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

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  Zest, Three, Feminine

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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  Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth

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

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• Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

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  People, Chance, Mets

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