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W. Somerset Maugham

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.


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