“It came upon me little by little. I came to like the life here, with its ease and its leisure, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Career Copy Share Image
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Quotations Copy Share Image
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy 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
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Famous love Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Cutting Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
“I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.” — W. Somerset Maugham Respect Copy Share Image
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham And love Copy Share Image
“I've found him a very good friend. Is it unnatural that I should take a man as I find him?" "The result… — W. Somerset Maugham Bad man Copy Share Image
“I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief 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
“It's stupid, isn't it? He's cruel and selfish, unscrupulous and wicked. I don't care. I don't respect him, I don't trust him,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but… — W. Somerset Maugham Actors Copy Share Image
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them… — W. Somerset Maugham Arms Copy Share Image
“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.” — W. Somerset Maugham Science Copy Share Image
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
