W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
An English playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
(1874 - 1965)
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...the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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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.
[Marriage]
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
[Religion]
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
[Companionship]
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After all, 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.
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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
[Beauty]
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But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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