Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSimplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOne cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMif you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMost people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’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