The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham Fantastic Copy Share Image
“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only… — W. Somerset Maugham First place 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
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Chess 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 Chaos Copy Share Image
“Good gracious, she could have remained faithful to him in spirit while she was being unfaithful to him in the flesh. That… — W. Somerset Maugham Religion Copy Share Image
“There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born or not… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change 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 Copy Share Image
“Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Advantage Copy Share Image
It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people,… — W. Somerset Maugham Friendship Copy Share Image
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — W. Somerset Maugham Companionship Copy Share Image
“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham Lovely 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
“You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances… — W. Somerset Maugham God love 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 never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to… — W. Somerset Maugham Money Copy Share Image
