139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 41. If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
- 42. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in ...
- 43. In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh ...
- 44. It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
- 45. It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know the ...
- 46. It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
- 47. It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are ...
- 48. It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get i ...
- 49. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, ...
- 50. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be ...
- 51. It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
- 52. It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
- 53. It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
- 54. It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest p ...
- 55. It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
- 56. It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'.
- 57. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- 58. It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesth ...
- 59. It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
- 60. Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assum ...
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