Life isn't long enough for love and art.

—W. Somerset Maugham

About W. Somerset Maugham

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William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.

More quotations from W. Somerset Maugham

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

—W. Somerset Maugham

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

—W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

—W. Somerset Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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14 Jul 2023 Added