“Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.” — W. Somerset Maugham Blood Copy Share Image
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. — W. Somerset Maugham Havana Copy Share Image
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. — W. Somerset Maugham Poet Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Famous love 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 Common Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham I have learned Copy Share Image
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham Expediency Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham Erroneous Copy Share Image
“Even though he had sacrificed her and cared nothing for her, even though he was callous and unkind, she loved him.” — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham God Copy Share Image
“I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Bitter Copy Share Image
“I don't know that in life it matters so much what you do as what you are. No one can learn by… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Charm Copy Share Image
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's… — W. Somerset Maugham Man Thinks Copy Share Image
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more… — W. Somerset Maugham Considering 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 Aging Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Clue Copy Share Image
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was… — W. Somerset Maugham Bitter Copy Share Image
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Human race Copy Share Image
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than… — W. Somerset Maugham Philosopher Copy Share Image
“I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
