Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes From W. Somerset Maugham Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham things-in-lifepleasuremen and he loved her suddenly because she loved him. W. Somerset Maugham She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her. W. Somerset Maugham qualitygreatnessmen Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls. W. Somerset Maugham souldoglove-you Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part. W. Somerset Maugham ridiculousgivenwant People who ask for your criticism want only praise. W. Somerset Maugham criticismwantpeople I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. W. Somerset Maugham witfaceswonder The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent. W. Somerset Maugham amyablegood-night Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. W. Somerset Maugham menlifebelieve It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. W. Somerset Maugham reasonphilosophybelieve And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. W. Somerset Maugham sunsetromewine She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious. W. Somerset Maugham powerfulsarcasticsea When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever. W. Somerset Maugham tiesfriendshippeople Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it. W. Somerset Maugham menmeanreality I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous. W. Somerset Maugham should-havegonemen A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. W. Somerset Maugham womensacrificelove There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. W. Somerset Maugham wisdomhistorythinking If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. W. Somerset Maugham intelligencewisdompeople The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you. W. Somerset Maugham lovemenbelieve We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us. W. Somerset Maugham maturejudgingage
