Quote #4
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
More from William Somerset Maugham
- After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
- You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- The tragedy of love is indifference.
- When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
- Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
- It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit:
- We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.