A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play… — 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
There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — 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
