William Maugham Quotations

Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain

We do not write as we want to but as we can

It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'