“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Friendship
“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
HappinessAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
Nature“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“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.”
Great“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Freedom“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
Women“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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Newyears“We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
Anniversary“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
Imagination“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.”
Truth“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
Money“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Money“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“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Love“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“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“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Age“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