“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
![“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable, and take human nature as you find it, smiling when it's absurd and grieved without exaggeration when it's pitiful, is to be cynical, then I suppose I'm a cynic. Mostly human…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e51/w-somerset-maugham-237_human-nature_i-haven-t-deeply-considered-the-matter-b_484661.jpg)
