Quotes by Maugham, W. Somerset

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all. >>

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that >>

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but th >>

Quotations about Freedom

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when >>

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. >>

We must determine whether we really want freedom -- whether we are wil >>

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

Maugham, W. Somerset