Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 6
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 5
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 5
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 3
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 3
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 1
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. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 1
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 1
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. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
Impropriety is the soul of wit. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
Tolerance is another word for indifference. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
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. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. W. Somerset Maugham British Playwright More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes 0