“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness 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
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe in god Copy Share Image
“Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work. Work is… — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity of work Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Affair Copy Share Image
“And sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorn hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so… — W. Somerset Maugham Blue sky Copy Share Image
“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as… — W. Somerset Maugham Adolescence Copy Share Image
“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you… — W. Somerset Maugham Real man Copy Share Image
“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I… — W. Somerset Maugham Husbands Copy Share Image
“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Justice Copy Share Image
“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of… — W. Somerset Maugham Far apart Copy Share Image
“The best I can suggest is that when the Absolute manifested itself in the world evil was the natural correlation of good.… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting 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
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure 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
“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
“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
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
“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been… — W. Somerset Maugham Daily bread Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence… — W. Somerset Maugham Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt… — W. Somerset Maugham Prayer Copy Share Image
“...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet… — W. Somerset Maugham Far apart 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
“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Artist Copy Share Image
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever… — W. Somerset Maugham Get over Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those… — W. Somerset Maugham People Regard Copy Share Image
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception… — W. Somerset Maugham Exciting Copy Share Image
“Philip himself asked desperately what was the use of living at all. It all seemed inane. It was the same with Cronshaw:… — W. Somerset Maugham High hopes Copy Share Image
“When I look back now and reflect on that brief passionate love of Red and Sally, I think that perhaps they should… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart and soul Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Ask me Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one… — W. Somerset Maugham Bus Copy Share Image
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and… — W. Somerset Maugham Beginning of life 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
“He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him… — W. Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
![“Larry smiled a trifle ruefully. "Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been born in the Middle Ages when faith was a matter of course; then my way would have been clear to me and I'd have sought to enter the order. I couldn't believe. I wanted to believe, but…” quote by W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/918/w-somerset-maugham-237_daily-bread_larry-smiled-a-trifle-ruefully-like-roll_1375424.jpg)
