“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
Friendship
“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”
FriendshipAll Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.”
Nature“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”
Food“The crown of literature is poetry.”
Poetry“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.”
Women“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.”
Anniversary“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Age“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
Death“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 is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”
Beauty“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
Truth“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
Money“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”
Love“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
Freedom“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”
Death“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”
Love“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.”
Freedom“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
Humor“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”
Change“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