The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. — 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
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. — 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
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. — 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
