What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Defects Copy Share Image
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice — W. Somerset Maugham Clothes Copy Share Image
Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little. — W. Somerset Maugham Favour Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Disillusionment Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Doe Copy Share Image
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? — W. Somerset Maugham Despise Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Happens Copy Share Image
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham Artificial Copy Share Image
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham Hell Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity Copy Share Image
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Institutions Copy Share Image
“When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things… — W. Somerset Maugham Death 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
“He refused tea, but Mrs. Crowley poured out a cup and handed it to him. 'You need not drink it, but I… — W. Somerset Maugham Tea Copy Share Image
You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Destruction Copy Share Image
“It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.” — W. Somerset Maugham Chastisement Copy Share Image
The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the… — W. Somerset Maugham Average 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
“It was strange that Walter with all his cleverness should have so little sense of proportion. Because he had dressed a doll… — W. Somerset Maugham Walter Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
“The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments,… — W. Somerset Maugham Artist Copy Share Image
“I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Let me be frank just this once, father. I've been foolish and wicked and hateful. I've been terribly punished. I'm determined to… — W. Somerset Maugham Better job Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Admirable Copy Share Image
“They seemed to love one another as-I hesitate to say passionately, for passion has in it always a shade of sadness, a… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation,… — W. Somerset Maugham Aim Copy Share Image
“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.” — W. Somerset Maugham Exist Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Cards Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Determined 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
