W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Common Sense

Quotes about: Common Sense

• For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Atheist, Believe, Common Sense

  "The Summing Up".

• Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Nature, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.186, Random House

• Have common sense and stick to the point.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Common Sense, Sticks, Common

• The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Passing Moments, Common Sense

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.50, Random House

• Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Names, Common Sense

• I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Religious, Common Sense, Common

• A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Common Sense, Novelists, Belief

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