William Maugham quotes

• However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it most people will think it wrong. (William Maugham) [thing/right/people/willpower]
• A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. (William Maugham) [account]
• There are two good things in life freedom of thought and freedom of action. (William Maugham) [life/action]
• There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. (William Maugham) [life/surprise/horror]
• We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. (William Maugham)
• To write simply is as difficult as to be good. (William Maugham)
• A good rule for writers: Do not explain overmuch. (William Maugham) [writers]
• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. (William Maugham) [courage/character/give]
• The crown of literature is poetry. (William Maugham) [literature/poetry]
• We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. (William Maugham) [power]
• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (William Maugham) [imagination/exercise/more]
• You are unlikely to have a startling adventure if you never take a more hazardous journey than a tram ride from your house to the office. It is the same with the soul. (William Maugham) [take/more/journey/tram]
• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. (William Maugham) [eyes]
• I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. (William Maugham)
• The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (William Maugham) [life/men/love]
• Tolerance is another word for indifference. (William Maugham) [tolerance]
• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are. (William Maugham)
• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. (William Maugham)
• I look into my empty heart and shrink dismayed:
  My soul is like a desert, and the wild wind blows
  In its silent, barren spaces. (William Maugham) [look/wild]
• 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. (William Maugham) [beauty]
• Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (William Maugham)
• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (William Maugham) [habit]
• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. (William Maugham)

Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wen Thu Fri Sat Apr 26 [51] 27 [71] 28 Apr 29 [10] 30 [58] 1 [2] 2 [50] 3 [73] 4 [75] 5 [35] May 6 [75] 7 [104] 8 [50] 9 10 [106] 11 [79] 12 [50] May 13 [50] 14 [8] 15 [75] 16 [114] 17 [50] 18 [112] 19 May 20 [79] 21 [76] 22 [59] 23 [43] 24 [61] 25 [71] 26 [50] May 27

The Best Authors

Search

Pop by Searches

Best Quote

Worst Quote