You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMHow 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 MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM