Phrase by 'W. Somerset Maugham'

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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.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Love , Happy , Anniversary , Chance


Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  You , Simple , Beauty , Rose


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

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Eat , Party , Talk , Dinner


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

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright


Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Perfection , Dull , Apt , Grave


Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Love , Achieve , Love Is , Dirty


What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Age , Old Age , Memories , Hard


The crown of literature is poetry.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Literature , Poetry , Crown


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.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Money , Freedom , Lose , Nation


Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham - British Playwright
  Like , Mind , Men , Stress


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