W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 9

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• Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

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  Men, Things In Life, Pleasure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.291, Diversion Books

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• When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

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  High School, Age, Emotion

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• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.195, Random House

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• For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

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  Love Is, Men, Interesting

  W. Somerset Maugham (1919). “The Moon and Sixpence”

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• The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

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  God, Church, Fool

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1732, eBookIt.com

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• If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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  Littles, Heavy, Ifs

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

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  Beautiful, Dance, Art

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• Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.

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  Work, Believe, Expected

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.70, Random House

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• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

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  Art, Travel, Adventure

  "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals.

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  Genius, Talent, Ideals

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• In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

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  Two, Religion, Use

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

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• In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

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  Men, Community, Culture

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• As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

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  Men, Virtue, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Kitty Fane". "The Painted Veil", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

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  Sight, Bored, World

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• Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

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  Art, Morality, Action

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• Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

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  Character, Personality, Quality

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

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• Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.

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  Track, Toss, Chosen

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• You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

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  Pursue

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

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• You can never know enough about your characters

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  Character, Enough, Knows

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.91, Random House

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• We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

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  Rivers, Flow, Steps

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• Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

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  Life, Want, Leisure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

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  Hate, Magic, Three

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.329, Random House

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• I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

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  Fool, Bigger

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.60, Random House

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• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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  Suffering Of Others, Suffering, Resignation

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

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