“Though I said that affection was the greatest enemy of love, I would never deny that it's a very good substitute. I'm… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer,” said Lawson. “What has nature got to do with it? No… — W. Somerset Maugham Nature Copy Share Image
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Americans Copy Share Image
“He had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt… — W. Somerset Maugham Prayer Copy Share Image
“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part… — W. Somerset Maugham Good thing Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Broken Copy Share Image
“But there is nothing men lie about so much as about their sexual life,...” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham Almighty Copy Share Image
It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham Affair Copy Share Image
“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you… — W. Somerset Maugham Habits Copy Share Image
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. — W. Somerset Maugham Common Copy Share Image
When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Bed Copy Share Image
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham Bored Copy Share Image
“At last they came to an eminence from which they saw the valley of the Rhine spread out before them under the… — W. Somerset Maugham First time Copy Share Image
“But on the whole the impression was neither of tragedy nor of comedy. There was no describing it. It was manifold and… — W. Somerset Maugham Beginning of life 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
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
