Easy Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Easy Found Gestures Hard Heroic Results
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have… — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
“A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was… — Emile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...” — Annie Brown Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United States goes and takes action there on behalf of the Iraqi government. You've got Iran coming in and saying we're going to stand with (Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, so now we're aligning ourselves with Iran,… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it. — Ted McGinley Copy Share Image
I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't… — Kim Clijsters Copy Share Image
