Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to… — 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
“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense… — 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 must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“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 either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
