There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother — William Somerset Maugham Consequences Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now — William Somerset Maugham Marriage Copy Share Image
“I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for… — William Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
“So now what?' 'Well, if you insist on marrying me... But it's an awful risk we're taking!' 'Darling, that's what life's for… — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“After all, it’s not my fault. I can’t force myself to believe. If there is a God after all and he punishes… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I didn’t expect you to understand me,” he answered. “With your cold American intelligence you can only adopt the critical attitude. Emerson… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he was touched by the American’s desire to help him: once when a… — William Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I… — William Somerset Maugham Education Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t talk to me about your socialists, I’ve got no patience with them,” she cried. “It only means that another lot… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The elderly clergyman gasped. Why should he marry? He was fifty-seven, a man couldn’t marry at fifty-seven. He couldn’t start looking after… — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.… — William Somerset Maugham Hatred Copy Share Image
“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in… — William Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“Philip realised that they had done with life, these two quiet little people: they belonged to a past generation, and they were… — William Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“The sun had set, and it was twilight, the sky was growing dark, bringing to view the twinkling stars; there was no… — William Somerset Maugham Moon Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm a very immoral person," I answered. "When I'm really fond of anyone, though I deplore his wrongdoing it doesn't… — William somerset maugham Copy Share Image
“Immediately after Mrs. Carey’s death Emma had ordered from the florist masses of white flowers for the room in which the dead… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to… — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders:… — William Somerset Maugham Belief in god Copy Share Image
“Philip was on friendly terms with the little Chinaman who sat at table with him twice each day. His name was Sung.… — William Somerset Maugham Friendship Copy Share Image
“It was extraordinary that after thirty years of marriage his wife could not be ready in time on Sunday morning. At last… — William Somerset Maugham Clergyman Copy Share Image
“There were legends in the Latin quarter of a time when students of different countries lived together intimately, but this was long… — William Somerset Maugham Time Copy Share Image
“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they… — William Somerset Maugham Envy Copy Share Image
“Thinking of Cronshaw, Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had given him, telling him that it offered an answer to his… — William Somerset Maugham Beginning of life Copy Share Image
“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never… — William Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind:… — William Somerset Maugham Compassion Copy Share Image
“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled… — William Somerset Maugham Cinderella Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon,… — William Somerset Maugham Song Copy Share Image
“I know wot it is,’ said Mrs. Kemp, shaking her head; ‘the fact is, you ain’t used ter drinkin’, an’ of course… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip looked up quickly. His lips tightened. He remembered how for months, trusting in what they told him, he had implored God… — William Somerset Maugham Source of happiness Copy Share Image
