I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas. W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes From W. Somerset Maugham The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... W. Somerset Maugham prosepoetsteps You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit. W. Somerset Maugham writing Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. W. Somerset Maugham funny-marriagemistakethinking It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. W. Somerset Maugham sadpraisecourage The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham inspirationalfunnyscience It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. W. Somerset Maugham comebackgentlemanwriting She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!" W. Somerset Maugham pigsmendirty It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. W. Somerset Maugham independencedeceptioneye Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. W. Somerset Maugham wellsknowspeople Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither. W. Somerset Maugham whiskeylooksway She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.†Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.†“As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,†Kitty mocked. W. Somerset Maugham beautifulmenhands We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. W. Somerset Maugham inspirationalfriendshiplife The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. W. Somerset Maugham regretwisdomlife-is It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham inspirationalcharacterlife What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? W. Somerset Maugham resignationillusionasks The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account. W. Somerset Maugham reputationablemen To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham failureinspirationcourage In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham lightnightcountry I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra. W. Somerset Maugham baghdadtonightdeath I have an idea that 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. W. Somerset Maugham menworldideas
