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When you're eighteen your emot...

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is nothing so terrible a...

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A soul is a troublesome posses...

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is a sort of man who pay...

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I've met so many people, often...

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

When he sacrifices himself man...

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Freedom! That was the thought ...

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You see, money to you means fr...

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I do not think you want too mu...

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Common-sense appears to be onl...

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

For if the proper study of man...

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

A man who is a politician at f...

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is unfair to expect a polit...

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

An art is only great and signi...

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

By the time an actor knows how...

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is astonishing how many boo...

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

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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