The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham Almighty Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham Want Copy Share Image
“here’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentimentality Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Conventions Copy Share Image
“The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Aim Copy Share Image
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper… — W. Somerset Maugham Grief Copy Share Image
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham Concern Copy Share Image
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham Mask Copy Share Image
A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Bones 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
“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.… — W. Somerset Maugham Dear Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham Clear Copy Share Image
“With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham Patience Copy Share Image
