It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
