W. Somerset Maugham Quotes and Quotations
Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
Dinner, a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it.
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
We do not write as we want but as we can.
We do not write as we want, but as we can.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her . . . but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.