W. Somerset Maugham Quotes (150 Quotes)
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- It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
- It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who had seemed essential proved unnecessary.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
- A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now she realized that his calmness was some instinctive shame of showing his feelings; he hid himself to weep.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge")
- And then he felt the misery of his life.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of enjoying.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
- Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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