Quotes
Quotes - Maugham
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
For the love of God, folks, don't do this at home.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
The end of culture is right living.
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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.
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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
