“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That… — W. Somerset Maugham Cynical Copy Share Image
“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just… — W. Somerset Maugham Habit 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
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
“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
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
“Everyone becomes equally conscious of his body as a separate and complete organism, [but] everyone does not become equally conscious of himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Football match Copy Share Image
“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of… — W. Somerset Maugham Burden 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
“C.-C.: Tell me frankly, Kitty, don't you think people make a lot of unnecessary fuss about love? LADY KITTY: It's the most… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Argument Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you give up drinking?” “Because I don’t choose. It doesn’t matter what a man does if he’s ready to take… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense… — W. Somerset Maugham Money Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate… — W. Somerset Maugham Companion Copy Share Image
“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Cynic Copy Share Image
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When I look back now and reflect on that brief passionate love of Red and Sally, I think that perhaps they should… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“Philip himself asked desperately what was the use of living at all. It all seemed inane. It was the same with Cronshaw:… — W. Somerset Maugham High hopes Copy Share Image
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and… — W. Somerset Maugham Beginning of life Copy Share Image
“He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him… — W. Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Complexity Copy Share Image
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than… — W. Somerset Maugham Philosopher Copy Share Image
“I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Complexity Copy Share Image
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure 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 Art Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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