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- American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- 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 religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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