For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. — W. Somerset Maugham Consequences Copy Share Image
“It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion… — W. Somerset Maugham Humor Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons… — W. Somerset Maugham Amusement Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“I was examined yesterday,' he remarked at last. 'It was worth while undergoing the gêne of it to know that one was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to… — W. Somerset Maugham Daily bread Copy Share Image
“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as… — W. Somerset Maugham Foul language Copy Share Image
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. — W. Somerset Maugham Comfort Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Advantage Copy Share Image
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t got the gift no one can give it to you, but if you have you can be taught how… — W. Somerset Maugham Gift Copy Share Image
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.” — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
“It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.” — W. Somerset Maugham Mystery Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“I don't ask you to forgive me. I don't ask you to love me as you used to love me. But couldn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Baby Copy Share Image
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