“...he felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He realized that he was manacled hand and foot with fetters that were only more intolerable because they consisted of nothing more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Thank god I'm free from all that now", he thought. And yet even as he said it he was not quit sure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He had talked of getting occupation of this sort so long that he had not the face to refuse outright, but the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — 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
“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — 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
![“The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c6a/w-somerset-maugham-237_amusing_the-americans-who-are-the-most-efficient_1902021.jpg)
