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Much Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
- Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes…
- He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was…
- I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
- You cannot write unless you write much.
- It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack…
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much…
- The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human…
- One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring…
- I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish…
- It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
- I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon…
- Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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