W. Somerset Maugham Short Quotes

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

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The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

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Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.

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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

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

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In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

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Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.

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

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

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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

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Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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Women are always glad to listen when you discourse upon love...

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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

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

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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

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Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.

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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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

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I know just where I stand. In the very first row of the second-raters.

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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

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I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

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