Somerset Maugham Quotes
January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965
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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.
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More Somerset Maugham Quotes
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.
Somerset Maugham— A Writer's Notebook (1946, pg. 48)
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Somerset Maugham— Of Human Bondage, Ch. 71 (1965)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Somerset Maugham— A Writer's Notebook (published 1946).
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Somerset Maugham— Of Human Bondage, Ch. 106 (1915)
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…
Somerset Maugham— The Summing Up (1938, pg. 223)
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Somerset Maugham— p. 310 (The Summing Up (1938))
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
Somerset Maugham— "1901", p. 76
— Sometimes misquoted as "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
— Sometimes misattributed to Bertrand Russell or Anatole France
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
Somerset Maugham— Cakes and Ale.
And then he felt the misery of his life.
Somerset Maugham— Of Human Bondage (1915, pg. 42)
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
Somerset Maugham— The Painted Veil (1924)
