Of Human Bondage Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham "Art," he continued, with a wave of the hand, "is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham