“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are. — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a… — W. Somerset Maugham Delight Copy Share Image
“In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy… — W. Somerset Maugham Stupid boys Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Achievement Copy Share Image
“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity… — W. Somerset Maugham Laughter Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has… — W. Somerset Maugham Cruelty Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Agnostic 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
“I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. — W. Somerset Maugham Politician Copy Share Image
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham Brave Copy Share Image
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentiment Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Copy Share Image
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. — W. Somerset Maugham Goodness Copy Share Image
“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
