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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
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
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“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
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“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
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
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
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