It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed. — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — W. Somerset Maugham Money Copy Share Image
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham Differences Copy Share Image
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but… — W. Somerset Maugham Actor Copy Share Image
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you… — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its… — W. Somerset Maugham Animal Copy Share Image
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and… — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity Copy Share Image
“If I have succeeded at all in giving the complicated impression that Strickland made on me, it will not seem outrageous to… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, you musn’t be offended just because I’ve taken away from you the satisfaction of thinking that you have been… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Experience Copy Share Image
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — W. Somerset Maugham Body Copy Share Image
“They're a funny lot, suicides. I remember one man who couldn't get any work to do and his wife died, so he… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Ambition Copy Share Image
“It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were… — W. Somerset Maugham Asceticism Copy Share Image
“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who… — W. Somerset Maugham Courage Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world,… — W. Somerset Maugham English Copy Share Image
“There are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them but doesn't itself exert any influence on… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Chess Copy Share Image
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. — W. Somerset Maugham Distinction Copy Share Image
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. — W. Somerset Maugham Poet Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
