British playwright, novelist and short story writer
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. – W. Somerset Maugham
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. – W. Somerset Maugham
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. – W. Somerset Maugham
I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. – W. Somerset Maugham
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
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