“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.”
DeathAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
Money“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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Friendship“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“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.”
Freedom“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”
Anger“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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Art“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“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“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
Beauty“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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Best“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
Beauty“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”
Home“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Age“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