The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: love
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.
W. Somerset MaughamPeople ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: criticism
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: life reading books refuge pleasure bibliotherapy escape good-habits
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
W. Somerset MaughamHe had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dressed. This did not surprise him, for he was beginning to realize that he was the creature of a God who appreciated the discomfort of his worshipers.
W. Somerset MaughamIn business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
W. Somerset MaughamThere are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: writing
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.
W. Somerset MaughamShe had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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