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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham quotes

British Playwright, Writer January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965

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W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to..."
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it. W. Somerset Maugham
It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people act in one way and preach in another. When the fact is brought to their notice, they assert that it is their weakness, and that their desire is to act up to their principles. That is pretence. People act according to their inclinations and adopt principles; because these are generally at variance with their inclinations they are ill-at-ease and unstable. But when they force... W. Somerset Maugham
You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's got her, only a man who thinks the world of women can get rid of her without humiliating her. W. Somerset Maugham
Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence..."
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a..."
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day. W. Somerset Maugham
Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair; you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon. W. Somerset Maugham
A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now she realized that his calmness was some instinctive shame of showing his feelings; he hid himself to weep. 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
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. W. Somerset Maugham
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows.(Philip always pretended that he was not lame.)She restored his belief in himself and put healing ointments, as it were, on all the bruises of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham
And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker.' 'Hunger. W. Somerset Maugham
I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency. W. Somerset Maugham
I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself. W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has..."
Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon. W. Somerset Maugham

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