A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. — W. Somerset Maugham Havana Copy Share Image
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Acceptance Copy Share Image
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Hollywood Copy Share Image
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to… — W. Somerset Maugham Duty Copy Share Image
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful… — W. Somerset Maugham Acting Copy Share Image
“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to… — W. Somerset Maugham Extrovert Copy Share Image
“Nothing, I suppose, exasperates a woman more than the sexual desire for her of a man who is physically repellent to her,… — W. Somerset Maugham Sexual desire Copy Share Image
“He realized that he was manacled hand and foot with fetters that were only more intolerable because they consisted of nothing more… — W. Somerset Maugham Causing pain Copy Share Image
“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about… — W. Somerset Maugham Mind Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you." "Didn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham America 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
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired… — W. Somerset Maugham Books 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 Asceticism Copy Share Image
“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice. Most people… — W. Somerset Maugham Precepts Copy Share Image
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. — W. Somerset Maugham Eden Copy Share Image
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good. — W. Somerset Maugham Good woman Copy Share Image
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