The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice — W. Somerset Maugham Clothes Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Defects Copy Share Image
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham Fool Copy Share Image
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“wasn’t my fault, it was the circumstances. Can’t you forgive me?” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“No one ever died of love yet," said the prioress with a savage bitterness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Bitterness Copy Share Image
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous. — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing… — W. Somerset Maugham Brain Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. — W. Somerset Maugham Rain Copy Share Image
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Sixties Copy Share Image
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“It tears my heart just as my heart is torn when on certain nights I watch the full moon shining on the… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it… — W. Somerset Maugham Chance Copy Share Image
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man… — W. Somerset Maugham Admiration Copy Share Image
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
“You see, you and I are the only people here who walk quite quietly and peaceably on solid ground. The nuns walk… — W. Somerset Maugham Nuns Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“I found something wonderfully satisfying in the notion that you can attain Reality by knowledge. In later ages the sages of India… — W. Somerset Maugham Knowledge Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm,… — W. Somerset Maugham Conversion Copy Share Image
“I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. I don't suppose… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.” — W. Somerset Maugham Gray eyes Copy Share Image
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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