3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham It’s a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
