“I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion Copy Share Image
No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it. — W. Somerset Maugham Heard Copy Share Image
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
“What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with… — W. Somerset Maugham Gentleman Copy Share Image
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them;… — W. Somerset Maugham Beastly Copy Share Image
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. — W. Somerset Maugham Action 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
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Feels Copy Share Image
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
“Luxury is dangerous to people who have never known it and to whom its temptations are held out too suddenly. [...] Just… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.” — W. Somerset Maugham Debt Copy Share Image
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“The particular value attached of virginity is a fabrication of the male, due partly to superstition, partly to masculine vanity, and partly,… — W. Somerset Maugham Sexual intercourse 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
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says… — W. Somerset Maugham Writing Copy Share Image
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. — W. Somerset Maugham Differences Copy Share Image
“I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
