William Maugham Quotes


74 William Maugham quotes:



"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Universe Quotes
"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Trouble Quotes
"It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Speech Quotes
"No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"Impropriety is the soul of wit."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Soul Quotes
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Rules Quotes
"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Race Quotes
"Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Quality Quotes
"A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes
"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Perfection Quotes
"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: Maugham Quotes Category: Perfection Quotes
"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."
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"I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Men Quotes Nature Quotes
"If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now"
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Love Quotes Scholars And Scholarship Quotes
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Author: Maugham Quotes Category: Literature Quotes



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