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People Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
- Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
- When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.
- If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.
- I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
- The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
- He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
- Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
- Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
- When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral…
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only…
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
- Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
- Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains…
- 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…
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