“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
“Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you." "Didn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them,… — W. Somerset Maugham Humble Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
“I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You know, any man can get any woman he wants if he tries hard enough, there's nothing in that, but once he's… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore,… — W. Somerset Maugham Humor Copy Share Image
“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Humor 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
“I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love 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
“people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham Feminine Copy Share Image
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and… — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and… — W. Somerset Maugham Distance Copy Share Image
“The general idiocy of mankind is such that they can be swayed by words, and however mortifying, for the present you have… — W. Somerset Maugham Cinema Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority… — W. Somerset Maugham Pleasure Copy Share Image
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham Ifs Copy Share Image
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story. — W. Somerset Maugham Brushes Copy Share Image
“She had a wild impulse to seize the stout, good-natured nun by the shoulders and shake her, crying: "Don't you know that… — W. Somerset Maugham Compassion Copy Share Image
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
