Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

Next quotes

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

• W. Somerset Maugham:

  I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but t