W Somerset Maugham Quotes

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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25 January, 1874
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16 December, 1965
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