W. Somerset Maugham Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
W. Somerset Maugham quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased playwright born on Jan 25, 1874). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 85 we have for him.
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
“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.”
“My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”
“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
“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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