W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:beauty soul art

“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:good

“He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:good evil

“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:change mind weakness

“From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:belief

“He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even had a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:passion madness

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:reading

“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:hope youth

“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:money need

“He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:money

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