A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — 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
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — 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 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
