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“He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · Money

“When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · Age

“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · Food

“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“To write simply is as difficult as to be good.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · No category

“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.”

— W. Somerset Maugham · Writing