The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham More Quotes From W. Somerset Maugham Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. W. Somerset Maugham happenslovemen Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham creativitypowerfulwriting There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. W. Somerset Maugham things-in-lifefreedomtwo Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. W. Somerset Maugham fashionbeachlying If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write. W. Somerset Maugham passionwritingcharacter It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. W. Somerset Maugham timefriendshiplife 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 perfectionsometimespeople The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. W. Somerset Maugham wisdomwisebeautiful If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers. W. Somerset Maugham womenfaultsmen I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. W. Somerset Maugham difficultmean The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice W. Somerset Maugham well-dressedclothesmen Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens. W. Somerset Maugham human-bondageworriedworst I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life. W. Somerset Maugham daughtergirlchildren I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him. W. Somerset Maugham mindmensex As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times. W. Somerset Maugham womenloverelationship Life isn't long enough for love and art. W. Somerset Maugham famous-lovelifeart Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. W. Somerset Maugham chancecutelife He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W. Somerset Maugham moneyspeakpeople Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. W. Somerset Maugham associationsometimesmen There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none? W. Somerset Maugham realcharacterhands
