Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. - W. Somerset Maugham

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

W. Somerset Maugham

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Corner, Dignity, Due, Human Bondage, Policemen, Round

Same Author Quotes

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Change, Changing, Life, Love, Same

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

Ask, Change, Delight, Foolish, World

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Come, Experience, Matter, Mistake, Wait, Waiting

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Book, Construct, Life, Miseries, Reading, Refuge

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

Believe, Guarantee, Guarantees, People, Truth

Similar Quotes

Natan Sharansky

A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

Simple, Squares, Test, Upheld, Views

Tom Berenger

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times. . . you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

Mistake, Predictable, Real, Think, Thinking, Wonder

Patricia Arquette

To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!

America, Birth, Equality, Rights, Taxpayer, United

Anna Torv

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

Horizon, Land, Say, See, Yards

Rumer Godden

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful. . . If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Successful, Should Have, People, Time, Unsuccessful