W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:greatness

“if nobody spoke unless he had something to say . . . the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:speech

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

topic:meaning

“do you find it more poetic when you don't quite know what it means? I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:meaning

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:appearance

“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:art

“'Why do nice women marry dull men?''Because intelligent men won't marry nice women.'”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:intelligence

“It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:fate universe

“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

topic:romance mystery

“It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything went on in the same way, and the companion who...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:need

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