W. Somerset Maugham Human Bondage Quotations

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

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

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

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.