W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Friendship, Children

• The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Average

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

• Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Personality, Quality

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

• The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Personality, Culture

• I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Change, Moving, Tired

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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