W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Bondage
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
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You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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