Quotes by : W. Somerset Maugham

It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather....

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that....

Great writers create writers of smaller gifts copy

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care....

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable....

Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least....

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.....

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in....