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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Maugham_retouched.jpg/220px-Maugham_retouched.jpg)
An English playwright, novelist and short story writer. William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and, reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
Here are some famous quotes by W. Somerset Maugham.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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We do not write as we want but as we can.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
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Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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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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Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
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Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
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Dying is a very dull dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
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It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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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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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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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you for it was the illusion they loved.
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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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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. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.