A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason,… — 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
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Let me be frank just this once, father. I've been foolish and wicked and hateful. I've been terribly punished. I'm determined to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's… — 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
“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been… — 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
![“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been born in the Middle Ages when faith was a matter of course; then my way would have been clear to me and I'd have sought to enter the order. I couldn't believe. I wanted to believe, but…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/w-somerset-maugham-237_daily-bread_larry-smiled-a-trifle-ruefully-like-roll_1375424.jpg)
