The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Important Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentimentality Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life. — W. Somerset Maugham Astronomy Copy Share Image
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Affected Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
“I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.” — W. Somerset Maugham Respect Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. — W. Somerset Maugham Faults Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Conventions Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Despicable 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 Desire Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Humans Copy Share Image
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without… — W. Somerset Maugham Extremes Copy Share Image
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves… — W. Somerset Maugham Description Copy Share Image
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Bed Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it… — W. Somerset Maugham Men Ignorant Copy Share Image
“The world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in… — W. Somerset Maugham Dream reality Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Americans Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Bad man Copy Share Image
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer,” said Lawson. “What has nature got to do with it? No… — W. Somerset Maugham Nature Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Faith Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Addiction Copy Share Image
“It came upon me little by little. I came to like the life here, with its ease and its leisure, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“At last they came to an eminence from which they saw the valley of the Rhine spread out before them under the… — W. Somerset Maugham First time Copy Share Image
