W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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  Giving Up, Unfortunate Things, World

• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Funny Marriage

  "The Mixture as Before". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1940.

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Excess

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.47, Random House

• Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Real, Reading

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

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  Writing, Broken, Habit

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.179, Random House

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

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  Anger, Political, World

  "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1948.

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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  Inspirational, Stress, Men

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

• From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

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  Old Habits, Habit, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

• Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

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  Community, Desire, Comfort

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

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  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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