The Works of Somerset Maugham Quotes

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Works of Somerset Maugham: Nine Novels in One Volume

“Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men among whom he lives, and finally man's relation”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Works of Somerset Maugham: Nine Novels in One Volume