A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. — W. Somerset Maugham Havana Copy Share Image
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham Clear Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurd Copy Share Image
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? — W. Somerset Maugham Despise Copy Share Image
It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a… — W. Somerset Maugham Cards Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Accountability Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Ash wednesday Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham I have learned Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself… — W. Somerset Maugham Agony Copy Share Image
I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham Fool Copy Share Image
“PORTEOUS: Do you mean to say you were going to steal my car. TEDDIE: Not exactly. I was only going to bolshevise… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming? — W. Somerset Maugham Daydreaming Copy Share Image
“He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Illusion Copy Share Image
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. — W. Somerset Maugham Resignation Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for something and I don't quite know what it is. But I know that it's very important for me to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will… — W. Somerset Maugham Cases Copy Share Image
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Institutions Copy Share Image
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
