“If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.” — W. Somerset Maugham Foolish Copy Share Image
I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating. — W. Somerset Maugham Education Copy Share Image
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Affectionate Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham Almighty Copy Share Image
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciated Copy Share Image
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw… — W. Somerset Maugham Air Copy Share Image
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and… — W. Somerset Maugham Easier Copy Share Image
“When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At… — W. Somerset Maugham Sacrifice Copy Share Image
When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an… — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
“You know, my dear child, that one cannot find peace in work or in pleausre, in the world or in a convent,… — W. Somerset Maugham Child 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
“You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive… — W. Somerset Maugham People Forgive Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I… — W. Somerset Maugham Able Copy Share Image
“Is that what we come into the world for, to hurry to an office, and work hour after hour till night, then… — W. Somerset Maugham Youth Copy Share Image
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
“...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
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham And love Copy Share Image
“I forgive them because they're human and weak. The longer I live, the more I am overwhelmed by the utter, utter weakness… — W. Somerset Maugham Forgive Copy Share Image
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
“It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meant nothing.” — W. Somerset Maugham Confidence 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
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it. — W. Somerset Maugham Believe Copy Share Image
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Allowed Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler… — W. Somerset Maugham Romance Copy Share Image
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham Community Copy Share Image
“But there is nothing men lie about so much as about their sexual life,...” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you. — W. Somerset Maugham Cost Copy Share Image
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham Bored Copy Share Image
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. — W. Somerset Maugham Bears 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
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham Chance Copy Share Image
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