Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are… — W. Somerset Maugham Class Copy Share Image
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice — W. Somerset Maugham Clothes Copy Share Image
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“The new-born child does not realize that his body is more a part of himself than surrounding objects, and will play with… — W. Somerset Maugham Children 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
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain. — W. Somerset Maugham Average Copy Share Image
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciated Copy Share Image
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Care Copy Share Image
“They're a funny lot, suicides. I remember one man who couldn't get any work to do and his wife died, so he… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — W. Somerset Maugham Sometimes Copy Share Image
“And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little… — W. Somerset Maugham Joy Copy Share Image
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till… — W. Somerset Maugham Blood Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
“You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. I don't suppose… — W. Somerset Maugham Drinking water Copy Share Image
“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your… — W. Somerset Maugham Culture Copy Share Image
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when… — W. Somerset Maugham Politics Copy Share Image
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man. — W. Somerset Maugham Air 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 Nature of man 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
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham Despise Copy Share Image
