“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“And sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorn hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so… — W. Somerset Maugham Blue sky Copy Share Image
“Like many another member of the gentle sex, she seems to have been ready enough to accept the perquisites of her position,… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your… — W. Somerset Maugham Conventions 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
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Men Copy Share Image
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing… — W. Somerset Maugham Brain Copy Share Image
“If I have succeeded at all in giving the complicated impression that Strickland made on me, it will not seem outrageous to… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too… — W. Somerset Maugham Brain Copy Share Image
I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner.… — W. Somerset Maugham Ambition Copy Share Image
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has… — W. Somerset Maugham Approval Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Humans Copy Share Image
“Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now… — W. Somerset Maugham Path Copy Share Image
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general… — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face.” — W. Somerset Maugham Long ago Copy Share Image
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham Average Copy Share Image
“I haven't deeply considered the matter [...] but if to look truth in the face and not resent it when it's unpalatable,… — W. Somerset Maugham Human nature Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentimentality Copy Share Image
