Quotes by : W. Somerset Maugham

I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and....

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they....

He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction....

Benevolence is often very peremptory.

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.

Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will,....

We do not write as we want but as we can.