“Philip had received little kindness in his life, and he was touched by the American’s desire to help him: once when a… — William Somerset Maugham Kindness Copy Share Image
“I didn’t expect you to understand me,” he answered. “With your cold American intelligence you can only adopt the critical attitude. Emerson… — William Somerset Maugham Critical Copy Share Image
“You know, I don’t believe in churches and parsons and all that,” she said, “but I believe in God, and I don’t… — William Somerset Maugham Believe in god Copy Share Image
“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they… — William Somerset Maugham Envy Copy Share Image
“There were legends in the Latin quarter of a time when students of different countries lived together intimately, but this was long… — William Somerset Maugham Time Copy Share Image
“It was extraordinary that after thirty years of marriage his wife could not be ready in time on Sunday morning. At last… — William Somerset Maugham Clergyman Copy Share Image
“She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.… — William Somerset Maugham Hatred Copy Share Image
“Philip was on friendly terms with the little Chinaman who sat at table with him twice each day. His name was Sung.… — William Somerset Maugham Friendship Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when I’m alone.” He looked at Philip. “You think that’s a condemnation? You’re wrong. I’m not afraid of my fear. It’s… — William Somerset Maugham Afraid Copy Share Image
“If they’re beautiful I don’t much mind if they’re not true. It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your… — William Somerset Maugham Beauty Copy Share Image
“There were two butchers who went to church, and they would not understand that the Vicar could not deal with both of… — William Somerset Maugham Simple plan Copy Share Image
“Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders:… — William Somerset Maugham Belief in god Copy Share Image
“But he could not tell what that significance was. It was like a message which it was very important for him to… — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm a very immoral person," I answered. "When I'm really fond of anyone, though I deplore his wrongdoing it doesn't… — William somerset maugham Bad woman Copy Share Image
“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled… — William Somerset Maugham Cinderella Copy Share Image
“The elderly clergyman gasped. Why should he marry? He was fifty-seven, a man couldn’t marry at fifty-seven. He couldn’t start looking after… — William Somerset Maugham Life Copy Share Image
“One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life… — William Somerset Maugham Doing things Copy Share Image
“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic,… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon,… — William Somerset Maugham Song Copy Share Image
“Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind:… — William Somerset Maugham Compassion Copy Share Image
“Philip gave him his hand and he clung to it as to life, for comfort in his extremity. Perhaps he had never… — William Somerset Maugham Death Copy Share Image
Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult — William Somerset Maugham Common sense Copy Share Image
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. — William Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — William Somerset Maugham Dirty Copy Share Image
“The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.” — William Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
“But if the folly of men made one angry one would pass one's life in a state of chronic ire.” — William Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
“The relations of a joker to his joke should be as quick and desultory as those of a bee to its flowers.” — William Somerset Maugham Comedy Copy Share Image
“Sighs grew more worried every month; he could not get the thought out of his head that Mr. Perkins would ask him… — William Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
“Oh, don’t talk to me about your socialists, I’ve got no patience with them,” she cried. “It only means that another lot… — William Somerset Maugham Good thing Copy Share Image
“Immediately after Mrs. Carey’s death Emma had ordered from the florist masses of white flowers for the room in which the dead… — William Somerset Maugham Wept Heart Copy Share Image
“Philip looked up quickly. His lips tightened. He remembered how for months, trusting in what they told him, he had implored God… — William Somerset Maugham Source of happiness Copy Share Image
“Thinking of Cronshaw, Philip remembered the Persian rug which he had given him, telling him that it offered an answer to his… — William Somerset Maugham Beginning of life Copy Share Image
“I know wot it is,’ said Mrs. Kemp, shaking her head; ‘the fact is, you ain’t used ter drinkin’, an’ of course… — William Somerset Maugham Drink Copy Share Image
