W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage Quotes
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.
Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...
They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure
I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.
Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.
I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.
He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.