A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was… — W. Somerset Maugham Bird Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Claims Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurd Copy Share Image
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Destruction Copy Share Image
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. — W. Somerset Maugham Grace Copy Share Image
Don't think of the past; the only thing that matters is the everlasting present — W. Somerset Maugham Everlasting Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little. — W. Somerset Maugham Favour Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania for general information. He had doubts about the utility… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Animosity Copy Share Image
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham Brave Copy Share Image
“I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He loved not only her beauty, but that dim soul which he divined behind her suffering eyes. He would intoxicate her with… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty 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
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Defects Copy Share Image
“He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Approval 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
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was all very well to aim at the intention of the soul: who could tell what that was when people seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Spirituality Copy Share Image
