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

W. Somerset Maugham

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

W. Somerset Maugham

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

W. Somerset Maugham

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

W. Somerset Maugham

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

W. Somerset Maugham

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

W. Somerset Maugham