The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life… — 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
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to… — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
“You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It came upon me little by little. I came to like the life here, with its ease and its leisure, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — 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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