“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”
Truth
“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”
TruthAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
Good“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.”
Freedom“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Freedom“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
Love“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Best“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.”
Beauty“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Love“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
Beauty“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
Imagination“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
Change“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
Nature“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.”
Age“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.”
Anniversary“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
Happiness“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
Nature“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.”
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