The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them,… — 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
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us,… — 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
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — 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
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — 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
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more… — 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
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