If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. — W. Somerset Maugham Breakfasts Copy Share Image
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. — W. Somerset Maugham Dinner Copy Share Image
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...he felt a queer little pang of bitterness because reality seemed so different from the ideal” — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Like many another member of the gentle sex, she seems to have been ready enough to accept the perquisites of her position,… — W. Somerset Maugham Gentle Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Aesthetic Copy Share Image
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
“With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Patience Copy Share Image
Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of… — W. Somerset Maugham Assassins Copy Share Image
“Thank god I'm free from all that now", he thought. And yet even as he said it he was not quit sure… — W. Somerset Maugham Mind Copy Share Image
“But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort… — W. Somerset Maugham Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. — W. Somerset Maugham Advertising Copy Share Image
