Of Human Bondage 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

“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

“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 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

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