“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 Pandora's Box Copy Share Image
“They seemed to love one another as-I hesitate to say passionately, for passion has in it always a shade of sadness, a… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made… — W. Somerset Maugham Able 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
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are… — W. Somerset Maugham Time Copy Share Image
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. — W. Somerset Maugham Comfort Copy Share Image
“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
“I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Bent Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham And love Copy Share Image
“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist… — W. Somerset Maugham Knowledge Copy Share Image
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work. — W. Somerset Maugham Education Copy Share Image
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Aim Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Answers Copy Share Image
I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought… — W. Somerset Maugham Fallen Copy Share Image
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. — W. Somerset Maugham Affection Copy Share Image
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man. — W. Somerset Maugham Great work Copy Share Image
“Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation,… — W. Somerset Maugham Aim Copy Share Image
“..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“But that wasn't the chief thing that bothered me: I couldn't reconcile myself with that preoccupation with sin that, so far as… — W. Somerset Maugham Foul language Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that when we say our honour prevents us from doing this or that we deceive ourselves, and our real… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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