Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — 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
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — 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
