Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. - W. Somerset Maugham 1 Share Now -
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. - W. Somerset Maugham 2 Share Now -
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. - W. Somerset Maugham 3 Share Now -
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. - W. Somerset Maugham 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. - W. Somerset Maugham 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. - W. Somerset Maugham 10 Share Now -
