W. Somerset Maugham

(27 votes)   The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

W(illiam) Somerset Maugham

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(427 votes)   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.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(314 votes)   Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

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(307 votes)   Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(276 votes)   Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(275 votes)   Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(267 votes)   You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(228 votes)   Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(209 votes)   I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(206 votes)   By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(188 votes)   The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(185 votes)   The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(182 votes)   What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(158 votes)   I 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 Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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