Famous Quotes / W. Somerset Maugham
139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 21. Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
- 22. For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the ...
- 23. From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and bef ...
- 24. Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantag ...
- 25. He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without ...
- 26. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasin ...
- 27. I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government ...
- 28. I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
- 29. I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing ...
- 30. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the wo ...
- 31. I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
- 32. I found that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other fiv ...
- 33. I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su ...
- 34. I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others ...
- 35. I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining ...
- 36. I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
- 37. I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but th ...
- 38. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- 39. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that ...
- 40. If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is fooli ...