“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.” — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful soul Copy Share Image
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play… — W. Somerset Maugham Actor Copy Share Image
“Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.” — W. Somerset Maugham Vanity Copy Share Image
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham God Copy Share Image
“Even though he had sacrificed her and cared nothing for her, even though he was callous and unkind, she loved him.” — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Bullying Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage… — W. Somerset Maugham Disaster Copy Share Image
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it… — W. Somerset Maugham Blind Copy Share Image
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
“One of the odd things about Stendhal is that though he was always on the watch lest anyone made a fool of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“You rejoice in your freedom, and you feel that at last you can call your soul your own. You seem to walk… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams 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
“I hate you. I wish you was dead." Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Brutal 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful… — W. Somerset Maugham Football Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Epigrams Copy Share Image
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
“How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Pity Copy Share Image
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little. — 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
“...as we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred,...” — W. Somerset Maugham Charity Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of… — W. Somerset Maugham Aesthetic Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
