“I've found him a very good friend. Is it unnatural that I should take a man as I find him?" "The result… — W. Somerset Maugham Bad man Copy Share Image
“I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that… — W. Somerset Maugham Admired Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Bed Copy Share Image
“In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“The air was heavy with the musty smell of humanity. But they danced furiously as though impelled by some strange power within… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in… — W. Somerset Maugham Claims Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Americans Copy Share Image
“The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
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“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
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“I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
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Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — W. Somerset Maugham Companionship Copy Share Image
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
“Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander… — W. Somerset Maugham Fleeting Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would… — W. Somerset Maugham Genius Copy Share Image
“She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that… — W. Somerset Maugham Compassion Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Addiction Copy Share Image
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...… — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Fall Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer,” said Lawson. “What has nature got to do with it? No… — W. Somerset Maugham Nature Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Agony Copy Share Image
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“I hate you. I wish you was dead." Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite… — W. Somerset Maugham Cried Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Brutal Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Acquire Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurd Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it… — W. Somerset Maugham Men Ignorant Copy Share Image
“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
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