The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play… — W. Somerset Maugham Actor Copy Share Image
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was. [Jane]” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham Men Copy Share Image
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Experience Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, you musn’t be offended just because I’ve taken away from you the satisfaction of thinking that you have been… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us. — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion… — W. Somerset Maugham Humor Copy Share Image
“Nothing, I suppose, exasperates a woman more than the sexual desire for her of a man who is physically repellent to her,… — W. Somerset Maugham Sexual desire 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 Causing pain Copy Share Image
“He could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about… — W. Somerset Maugham Mind Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure 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 Contempt Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Art 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 Copy Share Image
“It is an illusion that youth is happy: an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are… — W. Somerset Maugham Lies Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear boy, one mustn't expect gratitude. It's a thing that no one has a right to. After all, you do… — W. Somerset Maugham Gratitude Copy Share Image
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — W. Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides. — W. Somerset Maugham Blessed Copy Share Image
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall. — W. Somerset Maugham Driven Copy Share Image
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural. — W. Somerset Maugham Determined Copy Share Image
I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham Hell Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity 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 Copy Share Image
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you? — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Disillusionment Copy Share Image
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