Famous Quotes / W. Somerset Maugham
139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 61. Life isn't long enough for love and art.
- 62. Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
- 63. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- 64. Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
- 65. Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- 66. Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
- 67. Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
- 68. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
- 69. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradic ...
- 70. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradic ...
- 71. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
- 72. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- 73. Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
- 74. My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill ...
- 75. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
- 76. No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
- 77. No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
- 78. No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that ...
- 79. No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the cliches that ...
- 80. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.