W. Somerset Maugham World Quotations

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.