Tag: William Somerset Maugham

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

William Somerset Maugham

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

William Somerset Maugham

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

William Somerset Maugham

D’you call life a bad job? Never! We’ve had our ups and downs, we’ve had our struggles, we’ve always been poor, but it’s been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

William Somerset Maugham

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

William Somerset Maugham

Things don’t get any easier by putting them off.

William Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

William Somerset Maugham

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

William Somerset Maugham

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

William Somerset Maugham

It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

William Somerset Maugham