William Somerset Maugham ,quotes

The spirit is often most free ...

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.

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When a man's in love, he at on...

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

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Love is not always blind and t...

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

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It is good to be on your guard...

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

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The audience is a very curious...

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

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The audience is not the least ...

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

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Affection is created by habit,...

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

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It is astonishing how many boo...

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

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Make him laugh and he will thi...

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

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It is not difficult to be unco...

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

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Comedy appeals to the collecti...

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

William Somerset Maugham 03.03.2018 03:03:03 606 quotes

A dictator must fool all the p...

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

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Loving-kindness is the better ...

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

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There is no more merit in bein...

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

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Our natural egoism leads us to...

Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

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The humorist has a good eye fo...

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

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It must be that to govern a na...

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

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The Almighty can hardly be suc...

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

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Just as the painter thinks wit...

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

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There is nothing so degrading ...

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

William Somerset Maugham 03.03.2018 03:03:03 606 quotes

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