W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. - W. Somerset Maugham

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. - W. Somerset Maugham

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. - W. Somerset Maugham

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. - W. Somerset Maugham

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. - W. Somerset Maugham

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. - W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W. Somerset Maugham

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. - W. Somerset 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. - W. Somerset Maugham

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