Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I hate you. I wish you was dead." Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — 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
“[Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm... He was an… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them but doesn't itself exert any influence on… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“They seemed to love one another as-I hesitate to say passionately, for passion has in it always a shade of sadness, a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — 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
