Common sense Quote by William Somerset Maugham

“You know, I don’t believe in churches and parsons and all that,” she said, “but I believe in God, and I don’t believe He…

— William Somerset Maugham

“It was the period in Germany of Goethe’s highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national…

— William Somerset Maugham

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now

— William Somerset Maugham

“It was an exquisite memorial to that than which the world offers but one thing more precious, to a friendship; and as Philip looked…

— William Somerset Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it.

— William Somerset Maugham

“She knew nothing about children. After it was settled that Philip should come down to Blackstable, Mrs. Carey had thought much how she should…

— William Somerset Maugham

“His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in people before,…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table.”

— William Somerset Maugham

“Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. Pain and disease and unhappiness weighed down…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Then he saw that the normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect, of body or of mind: he thought…

— William Somerset Maugham

“Next morning on her way to the factory Liza came up with Sally. They were both of them rather stale and bedraggled after the…

— William Somerset Maugham