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Marriage is a very good thing,...

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When you choose your friends, ...

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

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A bird in the hand was worth t...

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You're beginning to dislike me...

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I'm afraid you've thought me a...

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

She says it's really not very ...

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Genius is talent provided with...

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Tolerance is only another name...

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The future will one day be the...

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Remember that it is nothing to...

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is an illusion that youth i...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Dying is the most hellishly bo...

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Beauty is also a Gift of God, ...

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There was once a professor of ...

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The Americans, who are the mos...

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You will have to learn many te...

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Beauty is something wonderful ...

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If only the good were a little...

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Some of us look for the Way in...

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

No action is in itself good or...

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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