Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedo >>

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies tha >>

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. >>

Quotations about Evil

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fi >>

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, >>

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happin >>

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset