“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more… — W. Somerset Maugham Considering Copy Share Image
“He realized that he was manacled hand and foot with fetters that were only more intolerable because they consisted of nothing more… — W. Somerset Maugham Fear 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
“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 Forgiveness 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
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. — W. Somerset Maugham Lasts 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
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Best sellers Copy Share Image
“Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort… — W. Somerset Maugham Bothered Copy Share Image
“[The goal is] "liberation from the bondage of rebirth. According to the Vedantists the self, which they call the atman and we… — W. Somerset Maugham Different level Copy Share Image
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and… — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
“In love one should exercise economy of intercourse. None of us can love for ever. Love will be stronger and will last… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me… — W. Somerset Maugham Card tricks Copy Share Image
“It's dreadful, isn't it?" "What? Death?" "Yes. It makes everything else seem so horribly trivial. He doesn't look human. When you look… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. — W. Somerset Maugham Men Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Idealism Copy Share Image
“The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of… — W. Somerset Maugham Aesthetic 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
“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
