W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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W. Somerset Maugham

Profession : Playwright

Birth : January 25, 1874

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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.

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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

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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

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