The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth… — W. Somerset Maugham Devil Copy Share Image
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
“I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality… — W. Somerset Maugham River Copy Share Image
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an… — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At… — W. Somerset Maugham Sacrifice Copy Share Image
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In the week I promised myself I should naturally read, for to the habitual reader reading is a drug of which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
“The particular value attached of virginity is a fabrication of the male, due partly to superstition, partly to masculine vanity, and partly,… — W. Somerset Maugham Sexual intercourse Copy Share Image
“According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Idealism Copy Share Image
“What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?" "To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing… — W. Somerset Maugham Comfort Copy Share Image
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry.… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
“You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleausre, in the world or in a convent,… — W. Somerset Maugham Child Copy Share Image
“Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Country Copy Share Image
“Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.” — W. Somerset Maugham Embryo Copy Share Image
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,… — W. Somerset Maugham Domination Copy Share Image
“He loved not only her beauty, but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes. He would intoxicate her with… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“It was all very well to aim at the intention of the soul: who could tell what that was when people seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Contradictions Copy Share Image
“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.” — W. Somerset Maugham Common sense Copy Share Image
Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone… — W. Somerset Maugham Blind Copy Share Image
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from… — W. Somerset Maugham Body Copy Share Image
“The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have… — W. Somerset Maugham Cinema Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Attention Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people,… — W. Somerset Maugham Friend Copy Share Image
