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W Somerset Maugham Facts
W Somerset Maugham Is Born On January 25, 1874
W Somerset Maugham Zodiac Sign Is Aquarius
W Somerset Maugham Zodiac Symbol Is Water Bearer
W Somerset Maugham Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Water
W Somerset Maugham Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rooster
W Somerset Maugham Occupation Is Playwright
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words? - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesnt want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
A man ought to work. Thats what hes here for. Thats how he contributes to the welfare of the community. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his hearts blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. Its a relief then to deal with a man who isnt quite so delightful but a little more sincere. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Dyou call life a bad job? Never! Weve had our ups and downs, weve had our struggles, weve always been poor, but its been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Death doesnt affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesnt concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
Have common sense and stick to the point. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I dont. - W Somerset Maugham Quotes
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