Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. — W. Somerset Maugham Epigrams Copy Share Image
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. — W. Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's… — W. Somerset Maugham Age 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
“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself,… — W. Somerset Maugham China Copy Share Image
“He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could… — W. Somerset Maugham Believe in god Copy Share Image
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“PORTEOUS: Do you mean to say you were going to steal my car. TEDDIE: Not exactly. I was only going to bolshevise… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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 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
“But to secure freedom, entire and absolute freedom, she was ever ready to make any sacrifice: ties affected her with a discomfort… — W. Somerset Maugham Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when… — W. Somerset Maugham Politician Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Animosity Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Agnostic Copy Share Image
This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“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
“I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty 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
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. — 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
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
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.” — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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
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
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
I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The great have no friends, dear Blasco. It is the price they must pay for their greatness.” — W. Somerset Maugham Friends Copy Share Image
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