The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. — W. Somerset Maugham Poet Copy Share Image
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so. — W. Somerset Maugham Author Copy Share Image
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.” — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.” — W. Somerset Maugham Grandeur Copy Share Image
“I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps… — W. Somerset Maugham Angry Copy Share Image
“He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at… — W. Somerset Maugham Bullying Copy Share Image
Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that… — W. Somerset Maugham Behavior Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil Copy Share Image
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life;… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He… — W. Somerset Maugham Dreams Copy Share Image
“You rejoice in your freedom, and you feel that at last you can call your soul your own. You seem to walk… — W. Somerset Maugham Freedom Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not… — W. Somerset Maugham Change Copy Share Image
Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through… — W. Somerset Maugham Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible… — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Americans Copy Share Image
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. — W. Somerset Maugham Havana Copy Share Image
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed. — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
