There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Clever Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Accepting Copy Share Image
“Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.” — W. Somerset Maugham Larger than life Copy Share Image
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Telling the truth Copy Share Image
There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves… — W. Somerset Maugham Description Copy Share Image
“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry.… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Continuation Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Achievement Copy Share Image
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. — W. Somerset Maugham Anxiety Copy Share Image
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all. — W. Somerset Maugham Astonishing Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Ancient-romans Copy Share Image
If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. — W. Somerset Maugham Faults Copy Share Image
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Affected Copy Share Image
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her. — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Faith Copy Share Image
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.… — W. Somerset Maugham Dear Copy Share Image
“To Lucy it was an admirable study, the contrast between the man who threw his whole soul into a certain aim, which… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
