The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Best things Copy Share Image
“A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it… — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now. — W. Somerset Maugham Differences Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
“Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons… — W. Somerset Maugham Amusement Copy Share Image
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and… — W. Somerset Maugham Dignity Copy Share Image
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If I have succeeded at all in giving the complicated impression that Strickland made on me, it will not seem outrageous to… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are… — W. Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its… — W. Somerset Maugham Animal Copy Share Image
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it… — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
“I found something wonderfully satisfying in the notion that you can attain Reality by knowledge. In later ages the sages of India… — W. Somerset Maugham Knowledge Copy Share Image
“I can't afford to let my judgement be clouded by any feeling that I might have for a human being. You are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed. — W. Somerset Maugham Care Copy Share Image
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general… — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
“It was clear that the will to achieve could not help you and confidence in yourself meant nothing.” — W. Somerset Maugham Confidence Copy Share Image
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength. — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it. — 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
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out. — W. Somerset Maugham Almighty 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
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. — W. Somerset Maugham Affectionate Copy Share Image
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
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