Quotes by : W. Somerset Maugham

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in....

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.

Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that....

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care....

You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds,....

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in....

Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an....