W. Somerset Maugham on Time
Browse 8 quotations attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 8 quotations attributed to W. Somerset Maugham and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, entry #8476: "To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day."
Attributed to W. Somerset Maugham, entry #185744: "'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'"
8 Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham on Time
"To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day."
"'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'"
"...the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now."
"I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present."
"Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way."
"It's so wonderful to shut out the world for a few hours. Rest, peace, silence, solitude. You would think they were luxuries that only the very rich can afford, and yet they cost nothing. Strange that they should be so hard to come by."
"Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job."
"She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered."