Quote #119
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
More from William Somerset Maugham
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
- Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
- Have common sense and stick to the point.
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
- If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: 'I don't know.'
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.