It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham Happiness Copy Share Image
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort. — W. Somerset Maugham Comfort Copy Share Image
Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t got the gift no one can give it to you, but if you have you can be taught how… — W. Somerset Maugham Gift Copy Share Image
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. — W. Somerset Maugham Criticism Copy Share Image
“Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.” — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
“Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is… — W. Somerset Maugham Feminism Copy Share Image
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for… — W. Somerset Maugham Digression Copy Share Image
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of… — W. Somerset Maugham Dear friend Copy Share Image
“Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper… — W. Somerset Maugham Grief Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Absurdity Copy Share Image
“No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the… — W. Somerset Maugham Love Copy Share Image
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist… — W. Somerset Maugham Educated man Copy Share Image
“I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For… — W. Somerset Maugham Children Copy Share Image
The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one… — W. Somerset Maugham Book Copy Share Image
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by… — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
“Here was food for reflection: Kitty had never heard the Chinese spoken of as anything but decadent, dirty, and unspeakable. It was… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham Evil genius Copy Share Image
“I was growing stale in London. I was tired of doing much the same thing everyday. My friends pursued their course with… — W. Somerset Maugham Friendship Copy Share Image
“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.” — W. Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue] — W. Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham Advantage Copy Share Image
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. — W. Somerset Maugham Inspirational Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“I don't ask you to forgive me. I don't ask you to love me as you used to love me. But couldn't… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. — W. Somerset Maugham Baby Copy Share Image
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“Flaubert prided himself on his frankness; it was indeed brutal.” — W. Somerset Maugham Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.” — W. Somerset Maugham Mystery Copy Share Image
“It's a habit, and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke.” — W. Somerset Maugham Habit Copy Share Image
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham Christian Copy Share Image
“But their fondest thoughts went to the two sons who had brought honour and glory to their ancient name.” — W. Somerset Maugham Sons Copy Share Image
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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