Illusion Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

“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

“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

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“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

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

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

— W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

— W. Somerset Maugham