Youth Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

18 Youth quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham’s observational style brings a balanced mix of realism and gentle humor to the topic of youth. Across eighteen entries you’ll encounter his nuanced take on the hopes, missteps, and growing pains that mark the early years.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's…

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“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.”

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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

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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.…

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“Is that what we come into the world for, to hurry to an office, and work hour after hour till night, then…

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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only…

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

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

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

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“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as…

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“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an…

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Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without…

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“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment…

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“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…

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

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“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

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“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I…

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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

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“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…

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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness…

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If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

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“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”

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“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.”

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“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

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