I love the writings of SOmerset Maugham and these are just of the famous quotes and sayings by Somerset Maugham. William Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s, and his quotes and sayings are quoted by every writer and bloggers even today.
“Love is what happens to a man and woman who don’t know each other”
~ William Somerset Maugham
“Women’s hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two”
~ William Somerset Maugham
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~W. Somerset Maugham
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
~W. Somerset Maugham
“No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman”
~William Somerset Maugham
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~W. Somerset Maugham
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
~W. Somerset Maugham
When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”
~W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
~W. Somerset Maugham
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
~W. Somerset Maugham
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
~One W. Somerset Maugham’s most famous quotes and most often quoted.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
~W. Somerset Maugham’s quote on love
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~W. Somerset Maugham
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.”
~W. Somerset Maugham’s saying on Love and Women
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
~W. Somerset Maugham
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
~W. Somerset Maugham
She says it’s really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.”
~W. Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
~W. Somerset Maugham
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.”
~ W. Somerset Maugham. This is one of my favorite quotations.
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