The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhat makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDeath doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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 MAUGHAMLife isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWhen you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMShe loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM