W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

W. Somerset Maugham



An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham



Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

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

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



Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

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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



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

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



Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham