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W. Somerset Maugham
British
Playwright
Born:
Jan 25
,
1874
Died:
Dec 16
,
1965
Good
Life
Only
People
World
You
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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
Love
Happy
Year
Changed
Changing
Those
Anniversary
Continue
Nor
Person
Same
To Love
Persons
Last
Chance
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
Writing
Three
Rules
No-One
Knows
Unfortunately
Novel
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Life
Funny
Best
You
Funny Thing
About
Accept
Very
Get
Often
Refuse
Anything
Thing
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love
Lasts
Never
Longest
Returned
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
W. Somerset Maugham
Memories
Age
Burden
Old
Old Age
Physical
Mental
Bear
Faculties
Failing
Makes
Hard
My own belief is that 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
Life
World
Own
Broadcast
Would
Sexual
Horror
My Own
Surprise
Were
Anyone
Large
Fill
Belief
Whose
Hardly
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Friendship
Character
You
Personality
Over
Friends
Your
Choose
Choosing
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
New Year's
Dinner
Party
Too
Dinner Party
Eat
Wisely
Talk
Well
Should
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom
Will
Lose
Nation
Too
Ease
About
More
Soon
Comfort
Than
Any
Thing
Thinks
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom
Money
Will
Values
Lose
Nation
Too
More
Comfort
Than
Irony
Anything
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham
Good
World
Easier
Bad
About
Give
Bad Ones
Habits
Up
Than
Unfortunate
Much
Thing
Good Habits
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
Young
Imagination
More
Powerful
Exercise
Contrary
Mature
Than
Common
Common Belief
Belief
Grows
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham
Suffering
Own
Others
Our
Learn
Resignation
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham
Age
Youth
Old
Old Age
Pleasures
Though
Than
Different
Which
Less
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. Somerset Maugham
Word
Tolerance
Indifference
Another
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
You
Simple
Smell
Beauty
Nothing
Rose
Hunger
About
Like
Perfume
Ecstasy
Said
Really
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
Food
You
Three
Eat
Well
Want
England
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
Beautiful
Unity
Variety
Essence
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
Stress
Mind
Men
Changing
Weak
Weak Men
Exaggerated
He
Like
Laid
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Soul
Humor
Wit
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
Women
Long
Occasionally
Makes
Women Are
Hollywood
Peaches
Apple
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
Truth
Few
Tell
Only
Make
Very
Anyone
Us
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham
Day
Great
Generation
Build
Our
Resources
Worthy
Promote
See
Something
Develop
Remembered
Perform
Institutions
Also
Powers
Call
Up
May
Whether
Land
Forth
Us
Interests
Let Us
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Happy
Youth
Illusion
Lost
Those
Who
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