“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age
“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
LoveAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
Beauty“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”
Age“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
Happiness“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Best“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Age“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
Change“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
Death“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
Freedom“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
Nature“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.”
Success“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
Love“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Freedom“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
Imagination“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
Good“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”
Work“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Poetry