If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we… — 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
![“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table. [Mr Harrington's washing]” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a0e/w-somerset-maugham-237_human-race_though-he-had-both-esteem-and-admiration_120835.jpg)
![“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly from growth to equilibrium, from equilibrium to decline, from decline to dissolution, from dissolution to growth, and so on to all eternity?" "Which presupposes…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/w-somerset-maugham-237_hindu-concept-of-the_can-there-be-anything-more-stupendous-th_2060207.jpg)
![“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we call the soul, is distinct from the body and its senses, distinct from the mind and its intelligence; it is not part of the Absolute, for the Absolute, being infinite, can…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba2/w-somerset-maugham-237_different-level_the-goal-is-liberation-from-the-bondage_799590.jpg)
