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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. - William Maugham Quotes

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

William Maugham

Habit

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge - William Maugham Quotes

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge

William Maugham

The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening - William Maugham Quotes

The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening

William Maugham

A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever - William Maugham Quotes

A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever

William Maugham

Impropriety is the soul of wit. - William Maugham Quotes

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

William Maugham

Soul

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. - William Maugham Quotes

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

William Maugham

Life Writers And Writing

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. - William Maugham Quotes

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

William Maugham

Creativity Perfection

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. - William Maugham Quotes

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

William Maugham

Beauty Humorous

Life isn't long enough for love and art. - William Maugham Quotes

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

William Maugham

Art

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. - William Maugham Quotes

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

William Maugham

Hero

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues. - William Maugham Quotes

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

William Maugham

Men

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. - William Maugham Quotes

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

William Maugham

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. - William Maugham Quotes

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

William Maugham

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. - William Maugham Quotes

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

William Maugham

Life

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. - William Maugham Quotes

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

William Maugham

Fools And Foolishness

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - William Maugham Quotes

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

William Maugham

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account - William Maugham Quotes

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account

William Maugham

Friends Or Friendship

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set - William Maugham Quotes

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set

William Maugham

Eyes

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams - William Maugham Quotes

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams

William Maugham

Truth

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - William Maugham Quotes

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

William Maugham

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. - William Maugham Quotes

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

William Maugham

Comfort Freedom

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. - William Maugham Quotes

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

William Maugham

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. - William Maugham Quotes

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

William Maugham

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. - William Maugham Quotes

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. ItÃ¢â¬â¢s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

William Maugham

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs - William Maugham Quotes

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs

William Maugham

Tolerance is only another name for indifference - William Maugham Quotes

Tolerance is only another name for indifference

William Maugham

Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying - William Maugham Quotes

Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying

William Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. - William Maugham Quotes

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

William Maugham

Money

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old. - William Maugham Quotes

No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.

William Maugham

Soul

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. - William Maugham Quotes

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

William Maugham

The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence. - William Maugham Quotes

The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence.

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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. - William Maugham Quotes

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. - William Maugham Quotes

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

William Maugham

Man Politicians And Politics

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. - William Maugham Quotes

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

William Maugham

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action - William Maugham Quotes

There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action

William Maugham

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