W. Somerset Maugham Quotes about Children

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It wasn't until 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.'

W. Somerset Maugham

Children, Humble, Humility

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mother, Children, Doe

W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.175, Random House

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

W. Somerset Maugham

Inspirational, Friendship, Children

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Girl, Daughter, Children

W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.204, Random House

For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sports, Children, School

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Children, Pain, Artist

W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

W. Somerset Maugham

Children, Book, Sleep

W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.3, Diversion Books

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

W. Somerset Maugham

Country, Children, Pain

"The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection".

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

Jobs, Children, Struggle

W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2171, eBookIt.com