All William Somerset Maugham Quotes
- The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. Lasts
- Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Change
- Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other Each
- Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Achieve
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. Angry
- It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. Advances
- Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it. Five
- Beauty is a bit of a bore. Beauty
- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. Advice
- Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of… Bear
- A good marriage is the exception that proves who rules. Exception
- If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now Grossly
- Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. Love
- There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. Anyone
- American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers American
- Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult Common
- Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother Affectionate
- When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they… Act
- Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way Only