It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible… — W. Somerset Maugham Amazed Copy Share Image
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. — W. Somerset Maugham Dull Copy Share Image
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. — W. Somerset Maugham Easier Copy Share Image
“What do you value in life then?" "I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. Beauty, truth, and goodness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.” — W. Somerset Maugham Determination Copy Share Image
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham Deliberation Copy Share Image
“There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.” — W. Somerset Maugham Facts Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Good Copy Share Image
“I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I… — W. Somerset Maugham Writer Copy Share Image
“Why do you seek the society of someone who hates and despises you?" "My dear fellow, what the hell do you suppose… — W. Somerset Maugham Despises 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 Kant Copy Share Image
There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like.… — W. Somerset Maugham Able Copy Share Image
Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love.… — W. Somerset Maugham Looks Copy Share Image
I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can… — W. Somerset Maugham Ideal man Copy Share Image
Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing… — W. Somerset Maugham Comfort Copy Share Image
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the… — W. Somerset Maugham Affair 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
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Chords Copy Share Image
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurd Copy Share Image
“He had passed his life in the pursuit of happiness, and had never learnt that happiness is best attained when it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
“Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe in god Copy Share Image
“Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work. Work is… — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity of work 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
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham Easy Copy Share Image
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Despicable Copy Share Image
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Care Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Arranging Copy Share Image
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. — W. Somerset Maugham Differences Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. — W. Somerset Maugham Enough Copy Share Image
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain. — W. Somerset Maugham Average Copy Share Image
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham Want Copy Share Image
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Best things Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham Excess Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. — W. Somerset Maugham Appointments Copy Share Image
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