W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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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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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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  Humility, Perfection, Dull

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

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• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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  Change, Enjoy It While It Lasts, Delight

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

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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  Life, Book, Reading

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• The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

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  Inspirational, Secret, Life Is

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

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  Freedom, Patriotic, Libertarian Party

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

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  Love, Life, Change

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

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• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

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  Believe, People, Guarantees

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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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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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  Inspirational, Clever, Happy New Year

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896)

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• The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.

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  Humble, Ignorance, Fate

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1377, eBookIt.com

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• Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

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  Men, Imperfection, Religion

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

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• The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

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  Wisdom, Regret, Life Is

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• The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

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  Education, Book, Reading

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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  Simplicity, Distinction, Mark

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

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• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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  Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

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• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

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  Way, Sentimental, Sentiments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

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  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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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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• Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

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  Husband, Firsts, Good Husband

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• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

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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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