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American women expect to find ...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Tradition is a guide and not a...

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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

The ability to quote is a serv...

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I can imagine no more comforta...

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

If forty million people say a ...

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The common idea that success s...

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

We learn resignation not by ou...

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

It is not true that suffering ...

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

What has influenced my life mo...

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Sentimentality is the only sen...

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Sometimes a man hits upon a pl...

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

You can do anything in this wo...

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Old age has its pleasures, whi...

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Anyone can tell the truth, but...

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The complete life, the perfect...

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

Old age is ready to undertake ...

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

There is no explanation for ev...

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

The ideal has many names, and ...

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

I made up my mind long ago tha...

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

William Somerset Maugham 606 quotes

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