Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham Mask Copy Share Image
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Deliberation Copy Share Image
“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Awake Copy Share Image
“Martha I thought you loved her. Bernard Enough to want her happiness above all things. Martha You are forty-five, aren’t you? I… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.' — W. Somerset Maugham Easy Copy Share Image
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
“I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing everyday. My friends pursued their course with… — W. Somerset Maugham Friendship Copy Share Image
“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Affectionate Copy Share Image
“Other men, with no more advantages than he, succeeded, and others again, with many more, failed. It seemed pure chance. The rain… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Fall Copy Share Image
“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate… — W. Somerset Maugham Divorce Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Favourite Copy Share Image
“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to… — W. Somerset Maugham Extrovert Copy Share Image
“I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was… — W. Somerset Maugham Every day Copy Share Image
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Baby Copy Share Image
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham” — W. Somerset Maugham Truth Copy Share Image
“Here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly… — W. Somerset Maugham Self control Copy Share Image
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.” — W. Somerset Maugham Too late Copy Share Image
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