A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — 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
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — 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
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps… — 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
![“She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d9/w-somerset-maugham-237_answers_she-sadie-thompson-gathered-herself-toge_1720685.jpg)
