139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 81. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
- 82. People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- 83. People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
- 84. Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
- 85. Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, i ...
- 86. Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
- 87. Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
- 88. She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- 89. She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made ...
- 90. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actuall ...
- 91. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- 92. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is er ...
- 93. The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o ...
- 94. The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty o ...
- 95. The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
- 96. The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, an ...
- 97. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- 98. The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- 99. The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- 100. The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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