“You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Charm Copy Share Image
“I don't know that in life it matters so much what you do as what you are. No one can learn by… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or that we deceive ourselves, and our real… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“The air was heavy with the musty smell of humanity. But they danced furiously as though impelled by some strange power within… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by… — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil genius Copy Share Image
“Here was food for reflection: Kitty had never heard the Chinese spoken of as anything but decadent, dirty, and unspeakable. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your… — W. Somerset Maugham Confidence Copy Share Image
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was… — W. Somerset Maugham Bird Copy Share Image
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason,… — W. Somerset Maugham Decency Copy Share Image
“[Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm... He was an… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Deathbed Copy Share Image
“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it… — W. Somerset Maugham Complacency Copy Share Image
I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It's stupid, isn't it? He's cruel and selfish, unscrupulous and wicked. I don't care. I don't respect him, I don't trust him,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Happily men don't realise how stupid they are, or half the world would commit suicide. Knowledge is a will-of-the-wisp, fluttering ever out… — W. Somerset Maugham Ignorance Copy Share Image
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part… — W. Somerset Maugham Astronomy 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 Book Copy Share Image
“The first time he talked in that way he said something that I've never forgotten, because it horrified me; he said that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Ash wednesday Copy Share Image
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