Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Facts Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Deliberation Copy Share Image
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Soul Copy Share Image
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Martha I thought you loved her. Bernard Enough to want her happiness above all things. Martha You are forty-five, aren’t you? I… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion Copy Share Image
“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without… — W. Somerset Maugham Extremes Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in… — W. Somerset Maugham Dream reality Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — W. Somerset Maugham Companionship Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Faith Copy Share Image
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“What do you value in life then?" "I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. Beauty, truth, and goodness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Excess Copy Share Image
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Best things Copy Share Image
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Care Copy Share Image
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. — W. Somerset Maugham Differences Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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
![“She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6d9/w-somerset-maugham-237_answers_she-sadie-thompson-gathered-herself-toge_1720685.jpg)
