W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale,...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love hate

“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love relationship

“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:love women men

“What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:love

“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life pain meaning

“the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead....”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:life beauty art

“let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge. Let us be silent, content in our little corner, meek and gentle like them. That is the wisdom of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:life wisdom simplicity

“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life writing living

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life men pleasure

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:happiness

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