First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means… — 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
