“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
“One of the odd things about Stendhal is that though he was always on the watch lest anyone made a fool of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. — W. Somerset Maugham England Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Determined Copy Share Image
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice 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
“Let me be frank just this once, father. I've been foolish and wicked and hateful. I've been terribly punished. I'm determined to… — W. Somerset Maugham Better job 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 Intelligence 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
“Thank god I'm free from all that now", he thought. And yet even as he said it he was not quit sure… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion 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 Believe in god Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Amusing Copy Share Image
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of… — W. Somerset Maugham Dear friend 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
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible… — W. Somerset Maugham Amazed Copy Share Image
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. — W. Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Doe Copy Share Image
