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Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two - William Maugham Quotes

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two

William Maugham

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. - William Maugham Quotes

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

William Maugham

German Composer Unity

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. - William Maugham Quotes

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

William Maugham

Books And Reading

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. - William Maugham Quotes

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

William Maugham

Books And Reading

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman - William Maugham Quotes

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman

William Maugham

Heart

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept - William Maugham Quotes

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept

William Maugham

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 Maugham Quotes

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 Maugham

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer - William Maugham Quotes

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

William Maugham

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. - William Maugham Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

William Maugham

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. - William Maugham Quotes

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

William Maugham

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - William Maugham Quotes

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

William Maugham

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother - William Maugham Quotes

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother

William Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely - William Maugham Quotes

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely

William Maugham

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. - William Maugham Quotes

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

William Maugham

Life

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. - William Maugham Quotes

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

William Maugham

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation - William Maugham Quotes

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

William Maugham

Life

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated - William Maugham Quotes

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated

William Maugham

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. - William Maugham Quotes

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

William Maugham

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too - William Maugham Quotes

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too

William Maugham

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

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

William Maugham

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain - William Maugham Quotes

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain

William Maugham

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. - William Maugham Quotes

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

William Maugham

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. - William Maugham Quotes

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

William Maugham

Have common sense and stick to the point. - William Maugham Quotes

Have common sense and stick to the point.

William Maugham

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences - William Maugham Quotes

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

William Maugham

The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice - William Maugham Quotes

The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

William Maugham

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 Maugham Quotes

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.

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Evil

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties - William Maugham Quotes

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties

William Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. - William Maugham Quotes

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

William Maugham

Home

We do not write as we want to but as we can - William Maugham Quotes

We do not write as we want to but as we can

William Maugham

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. - William Maugham Quotes

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

William Maugham

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. - William Maugham Quotes

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

William Maugham

Books And Reading

It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up - William Maugham Quotes

It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up

William Maugham

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts - William Maugham Quotes

I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts

William Maugham

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now - William Maugham Quotes

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now

William Maugham

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say,

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know

William Maugham

Life

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. - William Maugham Quotes

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

William Maugham

It takes two to make a love affair and a man's meat is too often a woman's poison - William Maugham Quotes

It takes two to make a love affair and a man's meat is too often a woman's poison

William Maugham

Love

Only a mediocre person is always at his best - William Maugham Quotes

Only a mediocre person is always at his best

William Maugham

The value of art is not beauty, but right action - William Maugham Quotes

The value of art is not beauty, but right action

William Maugham

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 Maugham Quotes

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 Maugham

Life

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. - William Maugham Quotes

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

William Maugham

Death

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. - William Maugham Quotes

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

William Maugham

Christianity Soul

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

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

William Maugham

Fools And Foolishness

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. - William Maugham Quotes

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

William Maugham

Race

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know' - William Maugham Quotes

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'

William Maugham

Life

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind - William Maugham Quotes

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind

William Maugham

Men

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do - William Maugham Quotes

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do

William Maugham

Life

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 Maugham Quotes

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.

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. - William Maugham Quotes

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

William Maugham

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