“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.” — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“So now what?' 'Well, if you insist on marrying me... But it's an awful risk we're taking!' 'Darling, that's what life's for… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He could not be positive that reason was much help in the conduct of life. It seemed to him that life lived… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he was touched by the American’s desire to help him: once when a… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The elderly clergyman gasped. Why should he marry? He was fifty-seven, a man couldn’t marry at fifty-seven. He couldn’t start looking after… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip realised that they had done with life, these two quiet little people: they belonged to a past generation, and they were… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He shook his fist at her. He was the mildest of creatures and ventured upon no action of his life without consulting… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders:… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Thinking of Cronshaw, Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had given him, telling him that it offered an answer to his… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“to follow one’s instincts with due regard to the policeman round the corner, had not acted very well there: it was because… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was an exquisite memorial to that than which the world offers but one thing more precious, to a friendship; and as… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You know, I don’t believe in churches and parsons and all that,” she said, “but I believe in God, and I don’t believe He… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was an exquisite memorial to that than which the world offers but one thing more precious, to a friendship; and as Philip looked… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it. — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She knew nothing about children. After it was settled that Philip should come down to Blackstable, Mrs. Carey had thought much how she should… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in people before,… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.” — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. Pain and disease and unhappiness weighed down… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled after the… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
