“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. — W. Somerset Maugham Doe Copy Share Image
“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an… — W. Somerset Maugham Writing Copy Share Image
When things are at their worst, I find something always happens. — W. Somerset Maugham Bondage Copy Share Image
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Trouble Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Distraught Copy Share Image
“I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Ambition Copy Share Image
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it. — W. Somerset Maugham Difficult Copy Share Image
“C.-C.: My dear Arnold, we all hope that you have before you a distinguished political career. You can't learn too soon that… — W. Somerset Maugham Integrity Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Clue Copy Share Image
“We're all so dreadfully tired of being goddesses. For centuries foolish men have set us up on a pedestal and vowed they… — W. Somerset Maugham Foolish Men Copy Share Image
“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.” — W. Somerset Maugham English gentleman Copy Share Image
In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is… — W. Somerset Maugham All things 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
“[Hayward] honestly mistook his sensuality for romantic emotion, his vacillation for artistic temperament, and his idleness for philosophical calm... He was an… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“And what is that going to lead to?" "The acquisition of knowledge," he smiled. "It doesn't sound very practical." "Perhaps it isn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it he drew a very pleasant picture of an affectionate, happy family who lived unpretentiously in circumstances of moderate affluence… — W. Somerset Maugham Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as… — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you give up drinking?” “Because I don’t choose. It doesn’t matter what a man does if he’s ready to take… — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
