Pleasure Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from…

— 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…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each…

— 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 have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority…

— W. Somerset Maugham