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~ W. Somerset Maugham Quotes ~
« on: November 20, 2015, 07:47:00 PM »
W. Somerset Maugham Quotes


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.




Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2015, 07:47:35 PM »
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2015, 07:48:01 PM »
We do not write as we want but as we can.
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2015, 07:48:29 PM »
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2015, 07:48:52 PM »
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2015, 07:49:21 PM »
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2015, 07:49:46 PM »
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2015, 07:50:13 PM »
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2015, 07:50:37 PM »
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2015, 07:51:04 PM »
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2015, 07:51:30 PM »
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.
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« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2015, 07:51:54 PM »
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
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« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2015, 07:52:21 PM »
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2015, 07:52:46 PM »
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2015, 07:53:11 PM »
Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
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