Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — W. Somerset Maugham 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 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
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — 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
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — 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
