37 quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“The crown of literature is poetry.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“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.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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

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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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