Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Famous love Copy Share Image
“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.” — W. Somerset Maugham Dish Copy Share Image
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
“The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Friends Copy Share Image
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Larger than life Copy Share Image
“Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Men Copy Share Image
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it. — W. Somerset Maugham Difficult Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Cards Copy Share Image
“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things… — W. Somerset Maugham Kant Copy Share Image
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Average Copy Share Image
“They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and… — W. Somerset Maugham Days Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Ambition Copy Share Image
“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“We're all so dreadfully tired of being goddesses. For centuries foolish men have set us up on a pedestal and vowed they… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
“It's stupid, isn't it? He's cruel and selfish, unscrupulous and wicked. I don't care. I don't respect him, I don't trust him,… — W. Somerset Maugham Selfish Copy Share Image
“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his… — W. Somerset Maugham Beethoven Copy Share Image
“And sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorn hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so… — W. Somerset Maugham Blue sky Copy Share Image
“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Chords Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
“Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Dirty Copy Share Image
“The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as… — W. Somerset Maugham Adolescence Copy Share Image
“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Justice Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Admirable Copy Share Image
“Philip himself asked desperately what was the use of living at all. It all seemed inane. It was the same with Cronshaw:… — W. Somerset Maugham High hopes Copy Share Image
“When I look back now and reflect on that brief passionate love of Red and Sally, I think that perhaps they should… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart and soul Copy Share Image
“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and… — W. Somerset Maugham Beginning of life Copy Share Image
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence… — W. Somerset Maugham Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
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