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William Somerset Maugham Quotes

«Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Destiny, Money | Keywords: directs, motions, puppet, puppets, sardonic, string

«At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: dinner, dinner party, party, wisely

«Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: assumed, in due course, mask, The Mask

«Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Perfection | Keywords: a trifle, ironies, trifle

«I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Resignation | Keywords: frame of mind, humorous, resignation, The Conduct of Life

«It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Grammar | Keywords: Common Speech, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, grammar

«We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer)

«If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Freedom, Irony, Nations | Keywords: ironies, irony

«When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | Keywords: short-change

«There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain»

Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer)