Happiness Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“With old and young great sorrow is followed by a sleepless night, and with the old great joy is as disturbing; but…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Martha I thought you loved her. Bernard Enough to want her happiness above all things. Martha You are forty-five, aren’t you? I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Oh, my dear boy, one mustn't expect gratitude. It's a thing that no one has a right to. After all, you do…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It may be that I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Why don’t you give up drinking?” “Because I don’t choose. It doesn’t matter what a man does if he’s ready to take…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I hate you. I wish you was dead." Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite…

— W. Somerset Maugham