"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 takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison. — W. Somerset Maugham Affair Copy Share Image
Don't think of the past; the only thing that matters is the everlasting present — W. Somerset Maugham Everlasting Copy Share Image
Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Accept Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentiment 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
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Copy Share Image
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and… — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. — W. Somerset Maugham Concern Copy Share Image
“Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination,… — W. Somerset Maugham Domination Copy Share Image
“Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.” — W. Somerset Maugham Embryo Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Country Copy Share Image
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them… — W. Somerset Maugham Arms Copy Share Image
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost… — W. Somerset Maugham Delight Copy Share Image
“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Anger 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
“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly… — W. Somerset Maugham Mind Copy Share Image
“... self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction… — W. Somerset Maugham Passion Copy Share Image
“I loved flying. I couldn't describe the feeling it gave me, I only knew I felt proud and happy. In the air,… — W. Somerset Maugham Felt Great Copy Share Image
“Gray's conversation was composed of cliches. However shopworn, he uttered them with an obvious conviction that he was the first person to… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Made Copy Share Image
“Philip remembered the story of the Eastern King who, desiring to know the history of man, was brought by a sage five… — W. Somerset Maugham History Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Earliest Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. — W. Somerset Maugham Goodness Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — W. Somerset Maugham Sometimes Copy Share Image
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham Brave Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.' — W. Somerset Maugham Discovered Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. — W. Somerset Maugham Resignation Copy Share Image
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can. — W. Somerset Maugham Intelligence Copy Share Image
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
