W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. - W. Somerset Maugham

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. - W. Somerset 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. - W. Somerset Maugham

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

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. - W. Somerset Maugham

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. - W. Somerset Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. - W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. - W. Somerset Maugham

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