Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage Quotes

#1. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.

John Scalzi

#4. There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Marlene Dietrich

#6. It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

David Mamet

#7. 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.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'

Douglas Adams

#9. The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Theodore Levitt