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Men seek but one thing in life...

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Often the best way to overcome...

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Art for art's sake makes no mo...

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is bad enough to know the p...

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Throw yourself into the hurly-...

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Life isn't long enough for lov...

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When you are young you take th...

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I'm only twenty-five. If I've ...

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I travel because I like to mov...

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Nothing in the world is perman...

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A good Havana is one of the be...

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is not for nothing that art...

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Music-hall songs provide the d...

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The author always loads his di...

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The subjunctive mood is in its...

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There are men whose sense of h...

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is no object to life. To...

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is nothing so degrading ...

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

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

We are like people living in a...

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You are not angry with people ...

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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