When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham Great work Copy Share Image
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham Fool Copy Share Image
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Important Copy Share Image
“Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham Feminine 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. — W. Somerset Maugham Clock Copy Share Image
“And what is that going to lead to?" "The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled. "It doesn't sound very practical." "Perhaps it isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Having fun Copy Share Image
“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Gone Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Despicable Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Behavior 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 Angry Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Bullying Copy Share Image
“What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?" "To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Idealism Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Aunt Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart break Copy Share Image
“I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that… — W. Somerset Maugham Admired Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Bed Copy Share Image
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Commonplace Copy Share Image
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