W. Somerset Maugham

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#nature #nature

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#adventure #artist #every #expression #his

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

#women #life

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#proverb #proverbs #humor

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #life #thought #freedom

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#hard #heroism #life #life

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#happiness #victory #dreams

Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#sex #women #men

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#writing #inspirational

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#passion #rape #love