W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:happiness youth

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:happiness suffering

“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:women

“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:women

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:freedom action thought

“one cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:self peace

“What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve for”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:heart eyes grief

“men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel…”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:fear men cruelty

“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:men suffering

“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:power stupidity

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