“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for… — W. Somerset Maugham Fall out of love 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Achieve 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty 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
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Hollywood Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Love 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… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe 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
“My dear, you used to be quite a dish; now you're quite a tureen.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its… — W. Somerset Maugham Animal Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a… — W. Somerset Maugham Cents Copy Share Image
“It tears my heart just as my heart is torn when on certain nights I watch the full moon shining on the… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
“For thirty years now I have been studying my fellow-men. I do not know very much about them. I should certainly hesitate… — W. Somerset Maugham First impressions Copy Share Image
“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man… — W. Somerset Maugham Human race Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham Abandoned Copy Share Image
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
“You rejoice in your freedom, and you feel that at last you can call your soul your own. You seem to walk… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to… — W. Somerset Maugham Ideal man Copy Share Image
