She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
– W Somerset Maugham
Related Quotes:
- Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. – Oscar Wilde
- Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that. – Rohan Candappa
- You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn’t the lowest form of wit. It’s not even wit at all. – John Flanagan
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. – Idries Shah
- The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. – W Somerset Maugham
- When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character. – W Somerset Maugham
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. – W Somerset Maugham
- Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. – W Somerset Maugham
- It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. – W Somerset Maugham
- She says it’s really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. – W Somerset Maugham
- The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one. – W Somerset Maugham
- If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? – W Somerset Maugham
- The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them. – W Somerset Maugham
- She had never felt so light of heart and it seemed to her as though her body were a shell that lay at her feet and she pure spirit. Here was Beauty. – m somerset maugham
- I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. – 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
- His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless … – W Somerset Maugham
- Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. – W Somerset Maugham
- To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. – W Somerset Maugham
- He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. – W Somerset Maugham
- My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. – W Somerset Maugham
- They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life-”their pleasure – W Somerset Maugham
- It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. – W Somerset Maugham
- Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly? – W Somerset Maugham
- Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men. – W Somerset Maugham
- Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven’t any money. – W Somerset Maugham
- Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. – W Somerset Maugham
- I’m one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience. – W Somerset Maugham
- He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn. – W Somerset Maugham
- If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. – W Somerset Maugham
- To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. – W Somerset Maugham
- The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure. – W Somerset Maugham
- When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? – W Somerset Maugham
- I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. – W Somerset Maugham
- The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor’s edge. – W Somerset Maugham
- I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. – W Somerset Maugham
- A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. – W Somerset Maugham
- There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are. – W Somerset Maugham
- Benevolence is often very peremptory. – W Somerset Maugham
- Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it. – W Somerset Maugham