“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
TruthAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
Humor“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Friendship“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.”
Anger“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
Women“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
Money“It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.”
Work“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
Best“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.”
Freedom“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
Best“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.”
Beauty“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“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.”
Age“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Poetry“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
Love“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Love“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Money“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
Happiness“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
Good“The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.”
Success