When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I don't ask you to forgive me. I don't ask you to love me as you used to love me. But couldn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing everyday. My friends pursued their course with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've found him a very good friend. Is it unnatural that I should take a man as I find him?" "The result is that you lose the distinction between right and wrong." "No, they remain just as clearly divided in my mind as before, but what has become a little confused in me is the distinction between the bad man… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only… — 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 must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our… — 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 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 either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
