Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them but doesn't itself exert any influence on… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The air was heavy with the musty smell of humanity. But they danced furiously as though impelled by some strange power within… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — 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 humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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 Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
