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W. Somerset Maugham - From the Advice category:
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody else's advice. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Aging category:
-on dying...
I felt that in my case an exception would be made. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Aging category:
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Art category:
Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Art category:
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Artists category:
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run downhill. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Audience category:
The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Character category:
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Criticism category:
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Excellence category:
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Expression category:
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Friendship category:
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Future category:
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Genius category:
Genius is talent provided with ideals. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Hypocrisy category:
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Illusion category:
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Imagination category:
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Imagination category:
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Inspiration category:
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Life category:
Life isn't long enough for love and art. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Mediocrity category:
Only a mediocre man is always at his best. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Mediocrity category:
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Moderation category:
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Money category:
-Of Human Bondage...
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Morality category:
- b.1874 d.1965...
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Music category:
Music is queer. Its power seems unrelated to the other affections of man, so that a person who is elsewhere perfectly commonplace may have for it an extreme and delicate sensitiveness. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Obsession category:
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Philosophy category:
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Production category:
Every production of an artist should be an expression of an adventure of his soul. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Repose category:
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Words category:
I would prefer a phrase that was easy and unaffected to a phrase that was grammatical. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Worth category:
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Writing category:
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. (W. Somerset Maugham)
W. Somerset Maugham - From the Writing category:
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it. (W. Somerset Maugham)
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