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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
By W. Somerset Maugham
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Success
By W. Somerset Maugham
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world ? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue our future lives will be less afflicted.
By W. Somerset Maugham
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
By W. Somerset Maugham
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The great critic...must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
By W. Somerset Maugham
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. Marriage
By W. Somerset Maugham
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. Love
By W. Somerset Maugham
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Love
By W. Somerset Maugham
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
By W. Somerset Maugham
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.
By W. Somerset Maugham
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. Death
By W. Somerset Maugham
We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
By W. Somerset Maugham
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. Art
By W. Somerset Maugham