W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Freedom, Patriotic, Libertarian Party

  "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

• Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain. We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Lonely, Heart, Together

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.113, Courier Corporation

• Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Politics, Wealth, Wells

• 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

• 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

• Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Humility, Men

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

• The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Money, Men, Devil

• If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Truth, Brave, Speak

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