The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Argument Copy Share Image
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense… — W. Somerset Maugham Money 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“On the whole, perhaps, it might be admitted that rough justice was done, but it exasperated the assistant that his chief trusted… — W. Somerset Maugham Justice Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose she… — W. Somerset Maugham End of the world Copy Share Image
“Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now… — W. Somerset Maugham Heart Copy Share Image
“I suppose it had never struck him that, Ischia, which he looked at every evening to see what the weather would be… — W. Somerset Maugham Home Copy Share Image
“Even here is something sad and terrible. But the impression is fleeting, and serves only to give a greater acuteness to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Business Copy Share Image
When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean… — W. Somerset Maugham Approval Copy Share Image
“In 1917 I went to Russia. I was sent to prevent the Bolshevik Revolution and to keep Russia in the war. The… — W. Somerset Maugham Revolution Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I think? I think God has been dead for millions upon millions of years. I think when he… — W. Somerset Maugham Existence Copy Share Image
“He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Career Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things,’ he said gravely. He hesitated. ‘It’s… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for something and I don't quite know what it is. But I know that it's very important for me to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham 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 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
“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 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 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
“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
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
“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
“I forgive them because they're human and weak. The longer I live, the more I am overwhelmed by the utter, utter weakness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
“Is that what we come into the world for, to hurry to an office, and work hour after hour till night, then… — W. Somerset Maugham Youth Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“You're behaving generously, old boy, and, you know, one needs a devil of a lot of tact to get people to forgive… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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