I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. — 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
The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of 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 Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — 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
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