The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice — W. Somerset Maugham Clothes Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Defects Copy Share Image
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheism Copy Share Image
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — W. Somerset Maugham Faces Copy Share Image
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. — W. Somerset Maugham Character Copy Share Image
Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“here’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Future Copy Share Image
“Society tempts me to its service by honours and riches and the good opinion of my fellows; but I am indifferent to… — W. Somerset Maugham Money Copy Share Image
“The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If there's anything I dislike it's the violin", she answered. "Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It… — W. Somerset Maugham Achievement Copy Share Image
“In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy… — W. Somerset Maugham Stupid boys Copy Share Image
“How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a… — W. Somerset Maugham Delight Copy Share Image
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the… — W. Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent… — W. Somerset Maugham Companionship Copy Share Image
She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he… — W. Somerset Maugham Anatomy Copy Share Image
“Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I've always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you… — W. Somerset Maugham Faith Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
“The world consists of me and my thoughts and my feelings; and everything else is mere fancy. Life is a dream in… — W. Somerset Maugham Dream reality Copy Share Image
“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life. — W. Somerset Maugham Astronomy Copy Share Image
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.” — W. Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Ability Copy Share Image
