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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
Tagged: Reading, Habit, Escapism, Sadness
“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
Tagged: Sentimental, Wise decisions, Choices
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Tagged: Love, Acceptance, real love
“...the important thing was to love rather than to be loved...”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Tagged: Love, to love vs. loved, Loving
“There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Tagged: Love
“We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Tagged: Humility, Humble, Silence, Quiet, Modesty
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Tagged: Best Literary Quotes, Lit quotes, Best Books
“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Tagged: Cheating, Love, Reasonable
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
Tagged: Men, Women, Love
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Tagged: Love, Men, Blame
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
Tagged: Creative, Art, Painting, Music
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