W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Consider the following quotes by W. Somerset Maugham:

"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore."

"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."

"When things are at their worst I find something always happens."

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed."

"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."

"There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved."

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."

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