The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat… — W. Somerset Maugham All kinds Copy Share Image
“don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“The Absolute. Reality. You can't say what it is; you can only say what it isn't. It's inexpressible. It's nowhere and everywhere.… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Accounts Copy Share Image
“Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Made Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Excess Copy Share Image
“...peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Peace Copy Share Image
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find… — W. Somerset Maugham Able Copy Share Image
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
“I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than… — W. Somerset Maugham Philosophy Copy Share Image
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself,… — W. Somerset Maugham China Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Affair Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Hope Copy Share Image
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose she… — W. Somerset Maugham End of the world Copy Share Image
“He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Marriage 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 Books Copy Share Image
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness 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
Only mediocre people are at the best all the time. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
