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Any Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
- The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables…
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is…
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to…
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
- What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
- 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…
- Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumedthe clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are…
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