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Human Bondage Quotes

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Love, Life, Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage ch. 71 (1915)

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.

W. Somerset Maugham
Worried, Human Bondage, Worst
W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1876, eBookIt.com

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Sarcastic, Belief, Human Bondage
"The Creative Impulse". Harper's Bazar, August 1926.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

W. Somerset Maugham
Entrepreneur, Negativity, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.439, Diversion Books

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Art, Human Bondage, Refuge
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.265, Diversion Books

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Mean, Anxiety, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.342, Diversion Books

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Asking, Reason, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Of Human Bondage”, p.470, Open Road Media

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

W. Somerset Maugham
Dignity, Human Bondage, Policemen
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.356, Diversion Books

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Old Habits, Habit, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

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

W. Somerset Maugham
Women, Wish, Human Bondage

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