By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Don't think of the past; the only thing that matters is the everlasting present — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He took you by force–yes, he was drunk at the time. It’s not the first time that’s happened to a woman and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’… — 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — 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
“The Absolute. Reality. You can't say what it is; you can only say what it isn't. It's inexpressible. It's nowhere and everywhere.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The first time he talked in that way he said something that I've never forgotten, because it horrified me; he said that… — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you." "Didn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — 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
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