The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. — W. Somerset Maugham Education Copy Share Image
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham Almighty Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Affectionate Copy Share Image
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurdity Copy Share Image
“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper… — W. Somerset Maugham Grief Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Digression Copy Share Image
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of… — W. Somerset Maugham Dear friend Copy Share Image
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
“Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm,… — W. Somerset Maugham Conversion Copy Share Image
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
“With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Patience Copy Share Image
“I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. I don't suppose… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham Affair Copy Share Image
"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I'll just show you this one." He showed me… — W. Somerset Maugham Card tricks Copy Share Image
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham Chance Copy Share Image
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. — W. Somerset Maugham Anxiety Copy Share Image
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
Don't think of the past; the only thing that matters is the everlasting present — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham Romance Copy Share Image
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But there is nothing men lie about so much as about their sexual life,...” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham Community Copy Share Image
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham Bored Copy Share Image
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
“The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.” — W. Somerset Maugham Determination Copy Share Image
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