Heart Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

It does the heart good to look at you.

— W. Somerset Maugham

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be…

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“Even though he had sacrificed her and cared nothing for her, even though he was callous and unkind, she loved him.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a…

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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even…

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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it…

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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

“She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other…

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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach…

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Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was…

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“I hate you. I wish you was dead." Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do…

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This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his…

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“Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now…

— W. Somerset Maugham