Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThrow yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMEach one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMen seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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 MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM