“It would have been reasonable for Hayward to stand aside and watch with a smile while the barbarians slaughtered one another. It… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“When I came back from France they all wanted me to go to college. I couldn't. After what I'd been through I… — William Somerset Maugham Education Copy Share Image
“She had added medicine because her brother-in-law practised it, but did not forget that in her young days no one ever considered… — William Somerset Maugham Medicine 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 Joker 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
“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
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. — William Somerset Maugham Advice Copy Share Image
“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now… — William Somerset Maugham 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 Copy Share Image
“when feeling is the gauge, you can snap your fingers at logic” — William Somerset Maugham 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
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
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — William Somerset Maugham Life 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
“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
“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
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. — William Somerset Maugham Humor 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 vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.” — William Somerset Maugham Difficult people 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — William Somerset Maugham Love 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
