We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. --W. Somerset Maugham — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences. — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Her happiness, sometimes almost more than she could bear, renewed her beauty. Just before she married, beginning to lose her first freshness, she had… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He wondered whether he had done right. He was dissatisfied with himself and with all his circumstances. He asked himself dully whether whenever you… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. --W. Somerset Maugham — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.” — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumedthe clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day. — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you're not over-sensitive about your misfortune. Has it ever struck you to thank God for it? As long as you accept… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.” — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
