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Famous Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham

 

Famous quotes made by the English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer, W. Somerset Maugham. He was born on January 25, 1874 and died December 16, 1965.

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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favorite form of self-indulgence.


In heaven when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.


Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.


To do each day two things one dislikes is a precept I have followed scrupulously; every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.


England seems to me full of people doing things they don't want to do, because other people expect it of them.


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


Impropriety is the soul of wit.


American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.


A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive the sacrifices he makes on her account.


The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregards for the necessities of existence.

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