W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

William Somerset Maugham was a british novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. During the 1930s it is reported that he was the highest paid author in the world.

He was born in Paris, however, at age 10 he was orphaned and went to England to live with his uncle. He was successful in his studies and was qualified as a doctor, but gave it up to fullfil his passion of writing.

Below are words of wisdom in the form of inspirational quotes and motivational quotes by W. Somerset Maugham:
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
W. Somerset Maugham

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
W. Somerset Maugham