People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. — W. Somerset Maugham Laundry Copy Share Image
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Even though he had sacrificed her and cared nothing for her, even though he was callous and unkind, she loved him.” — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?” — W. Somerset Maugham God Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham I have learned Copy Share Image
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham Erroneous Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham Expediency Copy Share Image
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it. — W. Somerset Maugham Common Copy Share Image
Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical. — W. Somerset Maugham Easy Copy Share Image
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
“I don't know that in life it matters so much what you do as what you are. No one can learn by… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“I have always been a little disconcerted by the passion women have for behaving beautifully at the deathbed of those they love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Deathbed Copy Share Image
“[Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm... He was an… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason,… — W. Somerset Maugham Decency 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
“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistical and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them… — W. Somerset Maugham Egotistical Copy Share Image
“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and… — W. Somerset Maugham Want Men Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Complexity Copy Share Image
“I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice 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 Philosopher Copy Share Image
“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Human race Copy Share Image
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was… — W. Somerset Maugham Bitter Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Clue Copy Share Image
“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal, and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. — W. Somerset Maugham Advertising Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
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