The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — 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
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — 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
“It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things,’ he said gravely. He hesitated. ‘It’s… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how… — 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
