--- title: "22 Habits Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham" description: "22 Habits quotes by W. Somerset Maugham. Plus more from W. Somerset Maugham and more Habits sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/w-somerset-maugham-237_habit_it-s-a-habit-and-i-m-just-as-uncomfortab_3111778.jpg" --- > [“It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/it-s-a-habit-and-i-m-just-as-uncomfortable-if-i-don-t-read-as-if-i/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/w-somerset-maugham-237_habit_it-s-a-habit-and-i-m-just-as-uncomfortab_3111778.jpg) > [You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/you-cannot-write-well-or-much-and-i-venture-the-opinion-that-you/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc5/w-somerset-maugham-237_habit_you-cannot-write-well-or-much-and-i-vent_358530.jpg) > [To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/to-acquire-the-habit-of-reading-is-to-construct-for-yourself-a-refuge/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/w-somerset-maugham-237_book_to-acquire-the-habit-of-reading-is-to-co_335178.jpg) > [Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/marriage-is-a-very-good-thing-but-i-think-it-s-a-mistake-to-make-a/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ed/w-somerset-maugham-237_failure_marriage-is-a-very-good-thing-but-i-thin_439143.jpg) > [From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/from-old-habit-unconsciously-he-thanked-god-that-he-no-longer/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ee/w-somerset-maugham-237_habit_from-old-habit-unconsciously-he-thanked_124959.jpg) > [An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/an-unfortunate-thing-about-this-world-is-that-the-good-habits-are/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/660/w-somerset-maugham-237_easier_an-unfortunate-thing-about-this-world-is_1022393.jpg) > [Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/habits-in-writing-as-in-life-are-only-useful-if-they-are-broken-as/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2f/w-somerset-maugham-237_broken_habits-in-writing-as-in-life-are-only-us_341077.jpg) > [Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/excess-on-occasion-is-exhilarating-it-prevents-moderation-from-2/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfa/w-somerset-maugham-237_excess_excess-on-occasion-is-exhilarating-it-pr_1421993.jpg) > [“Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/ashenden-was-in-the-habit-of-asserting-that-he-was-never-bored-it-was/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f47/w-somerset-maugham-237_habits_ashenden-was-in-the-habit-of-asserting-t_1356244.jpg) > [The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/the-world-in-general-doesn-t-know-what-to-make-of-originality-it-is/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/087/w-somerset-maugham-237_anger_the-world-in-general-doesn-t-know-what-t_805649.jpg) > [“But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/but-to-secure-freedom-entire-and-absolute-freedom-she-was-ever-ready/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45d/w-somerset-maugham-237_absolute-freedom_but-to-secure-freedom-entire-and-absolut_2886775.jpg) > [Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/excess-on-occasion-is-exhilarating-it-prevents-moderation-from/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/w-somerset-maugham-237_accepting_excess-on-occasion-is-exhilarating-it-pr_518715.jpg) > [In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/in-civilized-communities-men-s-idiosyncrasies-are-mitigated-by-the/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5f/w-somerset-maugham-237_behavior_in-civilized-communities-men-s-idiosyncr_2792985.jpg) > [“..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/he-was-responsible-only-to-himself-for-the-things-he-did-freedom-he/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/w-somerset-maugham-237_freedom_he-was-responsible-only-to-himself-for-t_1754397.jpg) > [“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/some-people-read-for-instruction-which-is-praiseworthy-and-some-for-2/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/866/w-somerset-maugham-237_book_some-people-read-for-instruction-which-i_3051351.jpg) > [“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/why-do-you-read-then-partly-for-pleasure-because-it-s-a-habit-and-i-m/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/w-somerset-maugham-237_books_why-do-you-read-then-partly-for-pleasure_1982347.jpg) > [Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful-habit-in-the-world-the-habit-2/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eba/w-somerset-maugham-237_bitter_insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful_2674162.jpg) > [“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/why-d-you-read-then-partly-for-pleasure-because-it-s-a-habit-and-i-m/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c3/w-somerset-maugham-237_books_why-d-you-read-then-partly-for-pleasure_2160252.jpg) > [“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/his-habit-of-reading-isolated-him-it-became-such-a-need-that-after/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cb/w-somerset-maugham-237_books_his-habit-of-reading-isolated-him-it-bec_2777844.jpg) > [“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/some-people-read-for-instruction-which-is-praiseworthy-and-some-for/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4e/w-somerset-maugham-237_addiction_some-people-read-for-instruction-which-i_627505.jpg) > [“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful-habit-in-the-world-the-habit/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/w-somerset-maugham-237_believe-in-god_insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful_2294475.jpg) > [Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/affection-is-created-by-habit-community-of-interests-convenience-and/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b87/w-somerset-maugham-237_affection_affection-is-created-by-habit-community_2798293.jpg) ## Other authors on Habits - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-duhigg-22239.jpg) Charles Duhigg 91 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/charles-duhigg/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-nir-eyal-1258.jpg) Nir Eyal 76 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/nir-eyal/) - [Susan C. Young 37 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/susan-c-young/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-napoleon-hill-70196.jpg) Napoleon Hill 37 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/napoleon-hill/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 36 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-darren-hardy-26902.jpg) Darren Hardy 35 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/darren-hardy/) - [Aristotle 34 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-covey-86975.jpg) Stephen Covey 33 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/stephen-covey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-dranil-kr-sinha-102.jpg) DrAnil Kr Sinha 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/dranil-kr-sinha/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-maraboli-87325.jpg) Steve Maraboli 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/steve-maraboli/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-james-95592.jpg) William James 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/william-james/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/paulo-coelho/) ## More by W. Somerset Maugham > [“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/a-man-thinks-it-quite-natural-that-he-should-fall-out-of-love-with-a/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/a-man-s-work-reveals-him-in-social-intercourse-he-gives-you-the/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/love-is-only-a-dirty-trick-played-on-us-to-achieve-continuation-of/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/the-world-is-hard-and-cruel-we-are-here-none-knows-why-and-we-go-none/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/there-is-no-more-merit-in-having-read-a-thousand-books-than-in-having/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/i-wanted-to-live-again-and-again-i-was-willing-to-accept-every-sort/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/in-hollywood-the-women-are-all-peaches-it-makes-one-long-for-an-apple/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/follow-your-inclinations-with-due-regard-to-the-policeman-round-the/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/his-love-became-a-prison-from-which-he-longed-to-escape-but-he-had/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/i-did-not-believe-him-capable-of-love-that-is-an-emotion-in-which/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [If only the good were a little less heavy-footed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/if-only-the-good-were-a-little-less-heavy-footed/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/perfection-has-one-grave-defect-it-is-apt-to-be-dull/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/a-god-that-can-be-understood-is-no-god-who-can-explain-the-infinite/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/my-dear-you-used-to-be-quite-a-dish-now-you-re-quite-a-tureen/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) > [“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/when-people-say-they-do-not-care-what-others-thing-of-them-for-the/) [W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/w-somerset-maugham/#itemlist", "name": "22 Habits Quotes By W. 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Of course to read in this way is as reprehensible as doping, and I never cease to wonder at the impertinence of great readers who, because they are such, look down on the illiterate. From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows? Let us admit that reading with us is just a drug that we cannot do without — who of this band does not know the restlessness that attacks him when he has been severed from reading too long, the apprehension and irritability, and the sigh of relief which the sight of a printed page extracts from him? — and so let us be no more vainglorious than the poor slaves of the hypodermic needle or the pint-pot. And like the dope-fiend who cannot move from place to place without taking with him a plentiful supply of his deadly balm I never venture far without a sufficiency of reading matter. Books are so necessary to me that when in a railway train I have become aware that fellow-travellers have come away without a single one I have been seized with a veritable dismay. But when I am starting on a long journey the problem is formidable.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W. 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Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. (the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W. Somerset Maugham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful-habit-in-the-world-the-habit/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/w-somerset-maugham-237_believe-in-god_insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful_2294475.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/w-somerset-maugham-237_believe-in-god_insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful_2294475.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/w-somerset-maugham-237_believe-in-god_insensibly-he-formed-the-most-delightful_2294475.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled…” — W. 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