A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“[Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm... He was an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and… — 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
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