139 Quotations by W. Somerset Maugham
- 121. Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
- 122. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, ch ...
- 123. We do not write as we want, but as we can.
- 124. We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- 125. We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a ba ...
- 126. We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
- 127. We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
- 128. What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammere ...
- 129. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the ...
- 130. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe ...
- 131. When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. H ...
- 132. When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty ...
- 133. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
- 134. When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
- 135. You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
- 136. You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- 137. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacri ...
- 138. You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
- 139. You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an aut ...
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