Quotes
Quotes - Maugham
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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.
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.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
