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Results of search for Author: W. Somerset Maugham - Page 8 of 10 Showing results 71 to 80 of 98 total quotations found.
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People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Circle, 1921
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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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 part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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 (1874 - 1965)
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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 (1874 - 1965)

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