I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Blessed Copy Share Image
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was. [Jane]” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Men Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Anger 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 Age Copy Share Image
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist… — W. Somerset Maugham Educated man Copy Share Image
“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“And what is that going to lead to?" "The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled. "It doesn't sound very practical." "Perhaps it isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Having fun Copy Share Image
“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Behavior Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Addiction Copy Share Image
“She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that… — W. Somerset Maugham Compassion Copy Share Image
“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would… — W. Somerset Maugham Genius Copy Share Image
“The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Americans Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity Copy Share Image
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham Hell Copy Share Image
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — 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 Life Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Determined Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall. — W. Somerset Maugham Driven 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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — 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
“The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Friends Copy Share Image
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
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