W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
W. Somerset Maugham Quotes. Below is a collection of famous W. Somerset Maugham quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by W. Somerset Maugham. Share these quotations with your friends and family.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know.'
By W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
By 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.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it
By W. Somerset Maugham
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
By W. Somerset Maugham
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
By W. Somerset Maugham
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.
By W. Somerset Maugham
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 it values more, it will lose that more.
By W. Somerset Maugham
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
By W. Somerset Maugham