It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — 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
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever… — 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
