“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he… — W. Somerset Maugham Art 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
“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing… — W. Somerset Maugham America 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
“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What… — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to… — W. Somerset Maugham Duty Copy Share Image
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion Copy Share Image
“Philip looked at his own work. How could you tell whether there was anything in it or whether you were wasting your… — W. Somerset Maugham Confidence Copy Share Image
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,… — W. Somerset Maugham Domination Copy Share Image
“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Difficult To Understand Copy Share Image
“Death speaks: There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
“When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly… — W. Somerset Maugham Great man Copy Share Image
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole… — W. Somerset Maugham Given Copy Share Image
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — W. Somerset Maugham Convinced Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it… — W. Somerset Maugham Revenge Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. — W. Somerset Maugham Association Copy Share Image
