Of Human Bondage Quotes

“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

“do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:meaning

“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:art

“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:fate universe

“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...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:need

“Benevolence is often very peremptory.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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