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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
By W. Somerset Maugham
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
By W. Somerset Maugham
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.
By W. Somerset Maugham
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
By W. Somerset Maugham
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.
By W. Somerset Maugham
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
By W. Somerset Maugham
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
By W. Somerset Maugham
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
By W. Somerset Maugham
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
By W. Somerset Maugham