What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — 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
“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” — 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
“I don't know that in life it matters so much what you do as what you are. No one can learn by… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — 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
“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
“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
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 wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception… — 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.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — 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
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy: an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at… — 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
