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
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Blessed Copy Share Image
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it. — W. Somerset Maugham Difficult Copy Share Image
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.” — W. Somerset Maugham Cruel Copy Share Image
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham Difficult Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Favourite Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death… — W. Somerset Maugham Friends Copy Share Image
“Now listen. If I think he’s awful we’ll just talk about the weather and the crops for a few minutes and then… — W. Somerset Maugham Fool Copy Share Image
“Death ends all things and so is the comprehensive conclusion of a story, but marriage finishes it veru properly too and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him;… — W. Somerset Maugham Gave Freedom Copy Share Image
For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I… — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Affection Copy Share Image
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
“The best I can suggest is that when the Absolute manifested itself in the world evil was the natural correlation of good.… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“What I can do is the only limit of what I may do. Because we are gregarious we live in society, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Justice 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
“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I… — W. Somerset Maugham Husbands 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you… — W. Somerset Maugham Real man Copy Share Image
“It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as… — W. Somerset Maugham Adolescence 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
“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was. [Jane]” — W. Somerset Maugham Exactly 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
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Bent Copy Share Image
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play… — W. Somerset Maugham Actor Copy Share Image
“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.” — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful soul Copy Share Image
“Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.” — W. Somerset Maugham Vanity 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
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Blurred Copy Share Image
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes… — W. Somerset Maugham Accounts Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
“The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Friends Copy Share Image
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — W. Somerset Maugham Convinced Copy Share Image
“It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Soul 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
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection. — W. Somerset Maugham Be creative Copy Share Image
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