Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can. — W. Somerset Maugham Intelligence Copy Share Image
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. — W. Somerset Maugham Resignation Copy Share Image
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. — W. Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.' — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham Failure Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Action Copy Share Image
If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it. — W. Somerset Maugham Brave Copy Share Image
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. — W. Somerset Maugham Mask Copy Share Image
“She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like… — W. Somerset Maugham Psychology Copy Share Image
“One of the odd things about Stendhal is that though he was always on the watch lest anyone made a fool of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some… — W. Somerset Maugham Desire Copy Share Image
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it… — W. Somerset Maugham Blind Copy Share Image
“The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage… — W. Somerset Maugham Disaster Copy Share Image
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an… — W. Somerset Maugham Art Copy Share Image
“And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight… — W. Somerset Maugham Idealism Copy Share Image
“What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?" "To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Christianity Copy Share Image
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other… — W. Somerset Maugham Bears Copy Share Image
“The illusion of free will is so strong in my mind that I can't get away from it, but I believe it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Happily men don't realise how stupid they are, or half the world would commit suicide. Knowledge is a will-of-the-wisp, fluttering ever out… — W. Somerset Maugham Ignorance Copy Share Image
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists. — W. Somerset Maugham Goodness Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense. — W. Somerset Maugham Atheist Copy Share Image
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. — W. Somerset Maugham Belief Copy Share Image
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists. — W. Somerset Maugham Appreciation Copy Share Image
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Sentiment Copy Share Image
Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham Age Copy Share Image
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good. — W. Somerset Maugham Good woman Copy Share Image
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. — W. Somerset Maugham Consequences Copy Share Image
“It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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