By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but… — 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
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — 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
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — 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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