Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Thank god I'm free from all that now", he thought. And yet even as he said it he was not quit sure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“... self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it… — 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
“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
