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
“I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him… — W. Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. — W. Somerset Maugham Rain Copy Share Image
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. — W. Somerset Maugham Dinner Copy Share Image
“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was. [Jane]” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Fall Copy Share Image
“it has this compensation (among, let us admit, not a few others), that sometimes it gives you the opportunity of seeing what… — W. Somerset Maugham Long ago Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I think? I think God has been dead for millions upon millions of years. I think when he… — W. Somerset Maugham God Copy Share Image
“The best I can suggest is that when the Absolute manifested itself in the world evil was the natural correlation of good.… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“My native gifts are not remarkable, but I have a certain force of character which has enabled me in a measure to… — W. Somerset Maugham Brick wall Copy Share Image
“According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Best things Copy Share Image
“Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
“He said he was disappointed with the way his fellow-countrymen had reacted to the depression; he would have expected them to take… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Gone Copy Share Image
“Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
“Now listen. If I think he’s awful we’ll just talk about the weather and the crops for a few minutes and then… — W. Somerset Maugham Time Copy Share Image
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
