“He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. — W. Somerset Maugham Politician Copy Share Image
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst… — W. Somerset Maugham Life 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
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. — W. Somerset Maugham Eden Copy Share Image
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. — W. Somerset Maugham Consequences Copy Share Image
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham Romance Copy Share Image
“Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons… — W. Somerset Maugham Habits Copy Share Image
“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Here was food for reflection: Kitty had never heard the Chinese spoken of as anything but decadent, dirty, and unspeakable. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been… — W. Somerset Maugham Daily bread Copy Share Image
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Belonging Copy Share Image
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play… — W. Somerset Maugham Actors Copy Share Image
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham Devilish Copy Share Image
Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us,… — W. Somerset Maugham Certain Copy Share Image
“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Blessed Copy Share Image
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Agnostic Copy Share Image
“I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
