W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Daughter, Mother, Simple

• You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Christian, Mother, Father

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.236, Diversion Books

• Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Mother, Boys

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 27 (written in 1896)

• A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mother, Children, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (2008). “The Razor's Edge”, p.175, Random House

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