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
“It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you… — W. Somerset Maugham Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Burden Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — W. Somerset Maugham All things Copy Share Image
“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil Copy Share Image
“And what is that going to lead to?" "The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled. "It doesn't sound very practical." "Perhaps it isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Having fun Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Gone Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Despicable Copy Share Image
“You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances… — W. Somerset Maugham God love Copy Share Image
“I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Ancestor Copy Share Image
“Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventurous spirit 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 Absolute Copy Share Image
“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed… — W. Somerset Maugham Childhood Copy Share Image
“He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Behavior Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Bullying Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Breasts Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Appeals Copy Share Image
“How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a… — W. Somerset Maugham Delight Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Achievement Copy Share Image
“In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy… — W. Somerset Maugham Stupid boys 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 Dislike Copy Share Image
“The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the… — W. Somerset Maugham Ceased Believe Copy Share Image
“Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to… — W. Somerset Maugham Money Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too… — W. Somerset Maugham Brain Copy Share Image
“He took you by force–yes, he was drunk at the time. It’s not the first time that’s happened to a woman and… — W. Somerset Maugham Drunk Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment… — W. Somerset Maugham Adultery Copy Share Image
Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason… — W. Somerset Maugham Answers Copy Share Image
“Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men… — W. Somerset Maugham Philip Copy Share Image
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend… — W. Somerset Maugham Ridicule Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has… — W. Somerset Maugham Cruelty Copy Share Image
“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity… — W. Somerset Maugham Laughter Copy Share Image
“MERESTON: But you break my heart. LADY FREDERICK: My dear, men have said that to me ever since I was fifteen, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Break heart Copy Share Image
