Sourdoughs Of Somerset Quotes

People may say . . . that all is made up and well again, but such breaches between great people are seldom or never so. ~ Anne Somerset

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham ~ W. Somerset Maugham

We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them. ~ Anne Somerset

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards. ~ Anne Somerset

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Whatever changes there are in the world I hope you will never forsake me and I shall be happy. ~ Anne Somerset

How much less is the sense of obligation in those
who receive favours than in those who grant them. Somerset Maugham ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together. ~ Anne Somerset

The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin. ~ Anne Somerset

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Culture is roughly everything we do and monkeys don't. ~ FitzRoy Richard Somerset

Could not imagine how the Chapter had made such a ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Peculiar excitement at the mysterious array. She ran her eyes ~ W. Somerset Maugham

And then he felt the misery of his life. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

He gazed at me from the caverns of his impenetrable eyes, ~ W. Somerset Maugham

He was at once to great and too small for love. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

What do you think it can be that makes him so queer? ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Reading does not make a man wise,it only makes him learned. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Life isn't long enough for love and art. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. The ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The painted veil which those who live call life ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty does not look with good grace on the timid advances of Humour. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Have you ever thought of death?" "Why should I? It doesn't matter. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin; ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Love will be stronger and last longer if there are impediments to its gratification. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

A novel cannot be made of facts alone; in themselves they are dead things. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

He had never been quite certain whether this action indicated courage or infirmity of purpose. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

He felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley. ~ Anne Somerset

Human beings filled him with disgust. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is another word for indifference. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

To his distress, the Queen suddenly "burst into a passion of weeping and said it was plain [she] was to be miserable as long as [she] lived, whatever [she] did. ~ Anne Somerset

It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity. LXXX ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The elect sneer at popularity; they are inclined even to assert that it is a proof of mediocrity; ~ W. Somerset Maugham

We cannot get it out of our heads that there is something comic in taking art so seriously. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

As we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred, ... ~ W. Somerset Maugham

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am
willing to excuse a thousand faults. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It does the heart good to look at you. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Her eyes had the blue of cornflowers, and they smiled with her lips, ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

He mingled idleness and idealism so that he could not separate them. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless. It ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Roy has always sincerely believed what everyone else believed at the moment. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Evil is as direct a manifestation of the divine as good. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

In the midst of life we are in death
one can never tell what may happen. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

She was like a silvery flower of the night that only gave its perfume to the moonbeams. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

We were staggered and immediately on the defensive, for she looked intellectual, and it made us feel shy. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I always found Dickens very coarse. I don't want to read about people who drop their aitches. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living ~ W. Somerset Maugham

What do you value in life then?"
"I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. Beauty, truth, and goodness. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.
'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then? ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark. ~ Anne Somerset

How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

You're so sharp you'll cut yourself if you don't look out, ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. You are a pedant, my dear fellow. The important thing is to construct. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I do not know if others are like myself, but I am conscious that I cannot contemplate beauty long. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

And do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham