William Somerset Maugham was a British novelist and playwright. His representative works include the drama "The Circle", the novels "The Shackles of Life", "The Moon and Sixpence", the short story collections "The Trembling of Leaves", "Ajin", etc. Somerset Maugham's classic sayings are as follows:

1. "Why do lovable women always marry idiots?" "Because men with brains do not marry lovable women."—— Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence"

2. When you get older, you will find that in order to make the world a tolerable place to live, you must first admit that human selfishness is inevitable . —— Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Life"

3. "What I want is such a costume. Putting it on makes people look like a punch on his jaw, knocking his teeth." "Cracking and rattling" - Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Life"

4. I have never known why people fall in love with another person. I guess maybe ours. There is a gap in the heart, it is a hole, blowing the biting cold wind into the soul, so we urgently need a heart of the right shape to fill it, even if you are a perfect circle like the sun, But the gap in my heart may just be a crooked zigzag shape, so you can't fill it. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Veil"

5. Some people say that disasters and misfortunes can make human nature noble, but this is not true; what makes people do noble actions is sometimes happiness and pride, and disasters and misfortunes can make people noble in most cases. Situations can only make people smaller-minded and more vengeful. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

6. Developing the habit of reading is equivalent to building a shelter for yourself, which can avoid almost all disasters in life. —— Maugham

7. He has always had a love for life. In his eyes, the idealism he encountered was to a large extent a cowardly retreat from life. . The idealist automatically avoids life because he cannot stand the competition and crowding of that kind of crowd; he has no strength to fight, so he calls this kind of struggle vulgar; he is vain because his peers do not use his understanding of himself. He comforts himself by looking down upon his companions. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Humanity"

8. Sympathy and thoughtfulness are a rare skill, but it is often abused by those who know they have this skill. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

9. The edge of a knife is difficult to cross; therefore the wise say that the way to salvation is difficult. —— Maugham's "The Blade"

10. A woman can be crueler than anyone else to a man who still loves her but whom she no longer loves; she is not only unkind to him, but also not kind to him at all. Unable to tolerate it, she became a ball of irrational rage. —— Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

11. "A woman can forgive a man for hurting him," he said, "but she can never forgive him for the sacrifice he made to her." - Mao Tom "The Moon and Sixpence"

12. God's millstone turns very slowly, but it grinds very finely. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Moon and Sixpence"

13. I really don’t see the use of reading the same thing endlessly. This is just a kind of laziness that seems to be hard-working. . —— Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Humanity"

14. There is no point crying if the milk is spilled, because all the forces in the universe are deliberately trying to spill the milk. —— Somerset Maugham, "The Shackles of Humanity" Shackles》