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All Quotes by author - W. Somerset Maugham
" 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. "
He
Because
Home
" An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. "
Bad
Give
Good
" 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. "
Comfort
Freedom
Lose
" Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. "
Tell
Only
Make
" At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. "
Talk
Dinner
Eat
" 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. "
Perfume
Rose
Said
" 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. "
More
People
World
" Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. "
Living
Death
Dead
" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "
Advice
Death
Nothing
" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "
Soul
Adventure
Art
" Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. "
Effect
Excess
Habit
" Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. "
Boy
Bring
Mother
" Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. "
Only
Habits
Broken
" Have common sense and stick to the point. "
Common Sense
Sense
Point
" I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. "
I Can
Life
Comfortable
" 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. "
Lose
Freedom
Values
" If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? "
You
Good
Change
" If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. "
Want
You
Food
" I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. "
Heart
Opinion
You
" I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. "
Myself
Short
Life
" Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. "
Powerful
Belief
Exercise
" Impropriety is the soul of wit. "
Soul
Wit
Humor
" In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. "
Women Are
Apple
Hollywood
" 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. "
Time
City
Darkness
" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "
Those
Happy
Who
" It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. "
Suffering
Character
Happiness
" It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. "
Enough
Independence
Just
" It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. "
Than
Train
More
" It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. "
Take
Than
Your
" It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. "
Look
Well
Good
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