“I suppose it had never struck him that, Ischia, which he looked at every evening to see what the weather would be… — W. Somerset Maugham Home Copy Share Image
“They ascribe omnipotence and omniscience to him and I don't know what else; it seems to me so strange that they never… — W. Somerset Maugham Fear Copy Share Image
“It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“He would not have been the first man to find that he loved his wife more when he was parted from her… — W. Somerset Maugham Marriage Copy Share Image
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Accidents Copy Share Image
“But the river, though it flowed so slowly, had still a sense of movement and it gave one a melancholy feeling of… — W. Somerset Maugham Far apart Copy Share Image
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall. — W. Somerset Maugham Driven Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
“... self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion Copy Share Image
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Copy Share Image
“She would not risk to grow so fond of her home that it was a pain to leave it; she preferred to… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“here’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some… — W. Somerset Maugham Bitter Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
