When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
“... how much less is the sense of obligation in those who receive favours than in those who grant them." Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Obligation Copy Share Image
“I would sooner a writer were vulgar than mincing; for life is vulgar, and it is life he seeks.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham Feminine 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 Ifs Copy Share Image
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. — W. Somerset Maugham Clock Copy Share Image
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him. — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth… — W. Somerset Maugham Devil Copy Share Image
“Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality… — W. Somerset Maugham River Copy Share Image
“I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
“The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have… — W. Somerset Maugham Cinema Copy Share Image
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure; indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from… — W. Somerset Maugham Body Copy Share Image
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage 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
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Ancient-romans Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for something and I don't quite know what it is. But I know that it's very important for me to… — W. Somerset Maugham Gaze Copy Share Image
“Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame… — W. Somerset Maugham Expectation Copy Share Image
“He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Career Copy Share Image
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Author Copy Share Image
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Grandeur Copy Share Image
“I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Christian 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 Age Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. — W. Somerset Maugham Author Copy Share Image
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham Despise Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Future Copy Share Image
“here’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham Lets Copy Share Image
Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it — W. Somerset Maugham I can Copy Share Image
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — W. Somerset Maugham Faces Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Hopeless Copy Share Image
