The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Important Copy Share Image
“Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.” — W. Somerset Maugham Gray eyes Copy Share Image
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives. — W. Somerset Maugham Adjectives 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
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's… — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Epigrams Copy Share Image
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. — W. Somerset Maugham Destiny Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of… — W. Somerset Maugham Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“...as we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred,...” — W. Somerset Maugham Charity Copy Share Image
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
“We're all so dreadfully tired of being goddesses. For centuries foolish men have set us up on a pedestal and vowed they… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism 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
“You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you… — W. Somerset Maugham Alleys Copy Share Image
“They say that happy people have no history, and certainly a happy love has none. They did nothing all day long and… — W. Somerset Maugham Days Copy Share Image
“When I look back now and reflect on that brief passionate love of Red and Sally, I think that perhaps they should… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart and soul Copy Share Image
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country.… — W. Somerset Maugham Ask me Copy Share Image
“There was something so benign and so friendly in the lady's manner that Catalina felt impelled to tell her sad story. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Bull 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 Compensation Copy Share Image
“They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been he would have… — W. Somerset Maugham Daughters Copy Share Image
“The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Ashenden Enraged Copy Share Image
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash… — W. Somerset Maugham Dirty Copy Share Image
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. — W. Somerset Maugham Lovely Copy Share Image
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. — W. Somerset Maugham Breakfasts Copy Share Image
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life. — W. Somerset Maugham Astronomy Copy Share Image
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