“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one… — 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
“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.” — 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? At… — 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
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
“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
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
“Now listen. If I think he’s awful we’ll just talk about the weather and the crops for a few minutes and then… — 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
