W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham

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 is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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

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

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
		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 Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Playwright Quotes Category: British Playwright Quotes Date of Birth: January 25, 1874 Date of Death: December 16, 1965 Nationality: British Amazon: W. Somerset Maugham on Amazon	Related Authors: Plautus Noel Coward Samuel Beckett James M. Barrie Jean Anouilh Moliere Arthur Miller Francoise Sagan
		Select W. Somerset Maugham Quotations: The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. W. Somerset Maugham 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 is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. W. Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. 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 Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham
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