“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
“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.”
SuccessAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“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“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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
Newyears“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
Love“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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Art“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“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“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“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“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“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Poetry“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
Humor“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Money“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