Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches) Quotes

“He was seated now with Margaret's terrier on his knees, stroking its ears, and Susie, looking at him, wondered with a little pang why no man like that had even cared for her.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face. She shrugged her shoulders.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“Murger's”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“the only safe subject of conversation was the weather.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“attempt”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“have not so very many years before you”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“I venture to think that the cess-pool is more necessary to democracy than parliamentary institutions.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“Whatever happened to him now would be one more motive to add to the complexity of the pattern, and when the end approached he would rejoice in its completion. It would be a work of art, and it would be none the less beautiful because he alone knew of its existence, and with his death it would at once cease to be.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“Feckless”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“lava-lava.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“elephantiasis,”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“abstemious”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“The vulgar might laugh at the Foreign Office, but there was no doubt it taught you how to deal with difficult people.”
― William Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham: Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Travel Sketches: A Collection of 33 works

“No one any good you be sure,' said Mrs. Kemp. 'I can't swaller these new people as are comin' in; the street ain't wot it was when I fust come.' When”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works

“she spent a long hour in the Turner room in the Tate Gallery, drinking”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Collected Works of W. Somerset Maugham (Novels, Short Stories, Plays and Travel Sketches): A Collection of 33 works